Its all hit me today......
We lost my mum in law a week today.
I was holding her hand when she took her last breath. Her daughter left the room for 5 minutes and thats when mum chose to let go.
Her daughter (and her daughters,) myself and my husband were at the house. Within and hour and a half, the district nurse had been to pronounce her dead and the funeral director had taken her from the house........and she'd gone.
The next morning, the eldest daughter arrived from the US. She hadn't arrived in time to see mum. Tuesday we all spent together sharing memories. Hubs and I returned to work Wednesday as theres not a lot we can do at this point. Hubs went around to mums house on Thursday evening and was shocked to see his sisters have already stripped half the house. But Saturday, very little was left, and they have got rid of all mums clothes, jewellery, niknaks....
Also we lost Dad 4 years ago and Mum refused to part with any of his things. Out of respect, we didn't take anything. My daughter wanted some of grandads shirts to make memory cushions, but mum said she wasnt ready to part with them. She eventually let my girl take 2 shirts, but she wanted more really to make cushions for all the cousins.
Hubs sisters have got rid of all Dads things too.
Im so upset, appaulled actually they got rid of things so quickly. My daughter is in the army, and requested I grab a few shirts, and a couple if things she had gifted her grandparents. All gone. One was a cushion she'd had made for grandad. When i asked my sister in law about it yesterday, I told her how upset L will be abd she said 'oh well, the other grandkids didn't get anything, right?' ' they wete just as special to them you know'.
I can't believe she has been so cold. That house was never her home, whereas hubs and other sister did live there before they married. She's just steamrolled in and make all the decisions....but her sister let her....hubs wasnt informed this was the plan of action.
This morning, ive been visiting the local charity shops enquiring about the cushion. No joy. One shop remembered the sisters and it seems they went in again today after me coz oldest sis has rang hubs saying the chatity shop told her i'd been in. She said...'i feel terrible now'....but clearly not terrible enought to call me and apologise. Im so sad coz my daughter is heartbroken. We could really have taken all that stuff at anytime over the last 8 months since Mum has been bedbound, but we respected her wishes, and in the end, we wern't given the chance.
Im so angry and upset that less than a week after Mum died, its almost like she never exsisted. Right now.....I dont think I can face my sister in law....coz i wont be able to be civil.....and quite frankly, i really want to give her a feckin slap....
I was holding her hand when she took her last breath. Her daughter left the room for 5 minutes and thats when mum chose to let go.
Her daughter (and her daughters,) myself and my husband were at the house. Within and hour and a half, the district nurse had been to pronounce her dead and the funeral director had taken her from the house........and she'd gone.
The next morning, the eldest daughter arrived from the US. She hadn't arrived in time to see mum. Tuesday we all spent together sharing memories. Hubs and I returned to work Wednesday as theres not a lot we can do at this point. Hubs went around to mums house on Thursday evening and was shocked to see his sisters have already stripped half the house. But Saturday, very little was left, and they have got rid of all mums clothes, jewellery, niknaks....
Also we lost Dad 4 years ago and Mum refused to part with any of his things. Out of respect, we didn't take anything. My daughter wanted some of grandads shirts to make memory cushions, but mum said she wasnt ready to part with them. She eventually let my girl take 2 shirts, but she wanted more really to make cushions for all the cousins.
Hubs sisters have got rid of all Dads things too.
Im so upset, appaulled actually they got rid of things so quickly. My daughter is in the army, and requested I grab a few shirts, and a couple if things she had gifted her grandparents. All gone. One was a cushion she'd had made for grandad. When i asked my sister in law about it yesterday, I told her how upset L will be abd she said 'oh well, the other grandkids didn't get anything, right?' ' they wete just as special to them you know'.
I can't believe she has been so cold. That house was never her home, whereas hubs and other sister did live there before they married. She's just steamrolled in and make all the decisions....but her sister let her....hubs wasnt informed this was the plan of action.
This morning, ive been visiting the local charity shops enquiring about the cushion. No joy. One shop remembered the sisters and it seems they went in again today after me coz oldest sis has rang hubs saying the chatity shop told her i'd been in. She said...'i feel terrible now'....but clearly not terrible enought to call me and apologise. Im so sad coz my daughter is heartbroken. We could really have taken all that stuff at anytime over the last 8 months since Mum has been bedbound, but we respected her wishes, and in the end, we wern't given the chance.
Im so angry and upset that less than a week after Mum died, its almost like she never exsisted. Right now.....I dont think I can face my sister in law....coz i wont be able to be civil.....and quite frankly, i really want to give her a feckin slap....
