It is only when it happens that you realise one of the biggest upheavals of your life often takes place in old age.
You are accustomed to life with a partner ,familiar friends and activities, your home and shared responsibilities. Following a heart attack and fall when my husband was taken to hospital never to return home .After the funeral and giving me support family and friends returned home to their own lives .Whenever I went out I was returning to an empty house. There was no one at home and the one person I wanted to see was never going to be there again.
I was becoming increasingly anxious in a large house with steep stairs, repairs that needed doing that I could not afford and spending several days in a row where I would not speak to anyone.
There was only one way out of this, sell up, downsize and find somewhere to live with support and companionship. This was a long hard process.
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