One year on……. Tomorrow will be exactly one year to the day that my daughter Molly was sectioned.  ‘Time doesn’t fly’ as they say, it feels exactly like 365 days, believe me it really does! Molly is so ready for her discharge date of 28th January 2019 and the house is almost ready, there is…

Let’s be realistic the journey for any parent of a ‘special needs’ child is never going to end it’s a life long commitment and that’s fine, my commitment to Molly will only ever end when I take my last breath. Life going forward and after the section is lifted will be different, I am very…

Edenwood is a unit for mentally ill people with learning difficulties. I have been going there almost every day for 10 months, the staff work so hard supporting their patients 365 days a year! I see the shift changes, when the go in and when they go out, after a challenging and tiring day or…

The pervious two posts have sat as drafts as I have been hesitant to sometimes publish the truth. The truth is suppose to set you free so here goes…… The emails bouncing around are so unsettling the battle between organisations are so unproductive and only reinforce my belief that it seems impossible to achieve an…

I went to Mount View today, it was cold and empty, now the terrifying task of creating a home begins. As I entered each room I tried to imagine my girl living here without me. You may not understand this as I have been fighting for this for so long but I am writing this…

The house is being worked on by Croft Construction, meetings and more are happening: Families met with Social housing landlord Visits to Mount View to check out progress Electrian (Mollys big brother) doing a grand job and taking direction from the girls…. All sounds great and on track, then we were informed last week (Thursday)…

Can you ever really know what is going on inside someone’s head or mind? Can you ever really help them? Being transparent if you are able, is maybe for some the first step towards recovery and we have to believe that recovery is possible because it is! I am in touch with a person who…

It may be raining this morning but I see only blue skies, getting the keys to the house on Monday  is a huge milestone and the realisation of how human kindness can change your world. Let’s face facts where would Molly be heading without the investors? A matter I can no longer afford to dwell…

This time last year looking after Molly was becoming so increasingly difficult, I have revisited the communication book (diary) tonight and it wasn’t nice to read and remember the onset of the mania and even more upsetting to acknowledge how we were living at that time with little or no support. No wonder I have…

Today my face is aching from smiling – we have a date for getting the keys to the supported living house and today I have appointed a company to commence the work. I can’t quite believe this happening. So when ASC said “you find the social housing landlord, you find the other tenants, you appoint…