We made the decision very reluctantly after my husband's last stay in the hospital that we really need to move closer to his VA facilities. Tomorrow is one of the reason's why. He has a VA appt with his heart specialist which is 150 miles away plus another to have his port flushed. We have to leave very early to get there. I can't find anywhere to board our dog and leaving her for 10 or so hours isn't fair to her. It is going to be 98F tomorrow so we can't take her and leave her in the car when we go inside to see the doctor. Waiting on a reply from a neighbour to see if she can come and let her out mid day but she goes out every other Tuesday and I am not sure if this is the week she goes or not. We will probably end up taking her and I will have to stay with her while my husband goes in alone. It will still be uncomfortable for both the dog and I because it is impractical to leave the car running for the air conditioning on such a hot day so we will be sitting outside somewhere hopefully in the shade for a couple of hours.
Added to that we are too far away from any hospital should another emergency come up, hence the need to move.
BUT!!!!! and as I have said before 😔 there is always a 'BUT'
We need to do some work on our house, we were in the middle of taking off some siding and re-studding the back wall of our sun room when he get sick and we can't find anyone to come out and do the work to finish it. It is in the 90's all day and every day and my husband is too weak still to work.
So we can't list our house yet. We could get a mortgage to buy another house but we couldn't manage to maintain two homes especially with a distance of 150 miles in between.
We have looked at maybe moving half way between there and here but have not found anything suitable to buy at a decent price. We did put a bid in on one we both liked but they chose different buyers. There are always multiple offers on anything worthwhile.
So we are stuck!