A moment to breathe

Over the last several years, as my mother lost mobility and had a series of health problems, I’ve had to spend considerable amount of time and energy taking care of more and more things so she could maintain some semblance of independence in her house. Over that time her house was becoming run down with little to no money to make repairs. Since October, after her stroke, she hasn’t been in the house, requiring 24x7 care in a long-term care facility. It has become more and more of a burden on me and over the last several months, as we’ve been in the process of getting it ready to sell, it’s been a big source of anxiety.

The last several weeks have been particularly taxing. As I wrote before I’ve had to go through the house and get rid of everything. That all ended today with the finalization of the sale of the house. It hasn’t set in yet that I won’t ever have to go over there again worrying about something going wrong with the house. Given how long I have been having to deal with it I’m sure it’s going to take a bit for that to happen but at least I can finally breathe a bit easier.