@Appleblossom, Dad is pretty contented. His memory is a bit dodgy, but he still remembers family and others he's in regular contact with. The home has an art teacher visiting regularly, who has encouraged him to put pencil/charcoal to paper again after not having done so for years. 🙂
Mum has severe lymphedema, and a related skin infection that isn't responding to any treatment, but via very careful wound mamagement, they're managing to slow its spread.
We can see sign that both of them are slowly "winding down", but at least they're doing it somewhere that they're well cared for and well liked. They both have high care needs in different ways, so while they would have liked to see out their end at home, they are much better off where they are.
The house... it needs to be sold, but there's 40 years of stuff to clear first, accumulated by two people with many and varied interests, who grew up in the waste-not-want-not post-depression war years. And my sister and I have also developed overful houses for more or less the same reasons, so we're busily trying to clear out whatever is junk at our own places so that we can bring back things that we genuinely want from their house. I think you'd relate to my Grandmother's pianola and 200+ rolls being one of the treasures. 🙂 While it's not as fine an instrument as a grand piano, it's an instrument that anyone can "play". I'm hoping that sing along evenings with a few friends are somewhere in our near-ish future. I may even pull out my violin and viola to accompany the rolls. 🎶🎻
