My Girl

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My Girl

Postby Emma Forrester » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:39 pm

My name is Emma. I live in Harrogate. I am my daughter Charlie's carer. She suffers from anorexia and mental health problems, she is 20 years old and was in hospital recently in Leeds which we both found very stressful but she is home now and looking forward to her 21st party in may :)
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Re: My Girl

Postby no1mum » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:41 pm

Hi Emma and a warm welcome to the forum.
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Re: My Girl

Postby Emma Forrester » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:45 pm

Thank You
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Re: My Girl

Postby no1mum » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:51 pm

I've pm'd you Emma.
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Re: My Girl

Postby Robert » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:41 pm

Hello Emma. Good to have you with us. Welcome :)

Pleased to hear that your daughter is back home with you now. That must be a relief. Travelling back and forth to Leeds is stressful in itself.

As you can see. Plenty of friendly faces here.... :)

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Re: My Girl

Postby Brindleboy123 » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:06 pm

Hi Emma, welcome to the forum, it's a great place to come to whenever you can and there is usually someone around to natter to!

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Re: My Girl

Postby Booksey » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:14 pm

Hello and welcome
"There comes a time when something you love no longer is, and what sustains you is knowing that there will never come a time when it no longer was." - Robert Brault
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Re: My Girl

Postby Myrtle » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:14 am

Hi Emma and welcome :D
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light.
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Re: My Girl

Postby poppett » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:52 am

Hello Emma, and welcome from me too.

Take care
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Re: My Girl

Postby Tracey » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:02 pm

Hi Emma.

Welcome to the forums.

I hope your daughter has a lovely birthday.

My daughters 21st in August, already thinking of ideas of things to get x
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Re: My Girl

Postby Deborah » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:41 pm

Hi Emma, welcome to the Forum.
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Re: My Girl

Postby bowlingbun » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:33 am

Welcome to the Forum. Travelling and caring for a loved one can be tremendously stressful, especially at this time of the year when the weather is bad. Take care.
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Re: My Girl

Postby Emma Forrester » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:25 am

proud of my daughter she is really trying hard to keep on top of the eating and i know she is struggling but we take 1 day at a time. the football club she coaches with are sending her on a referee's course as they have no qualified refs in the club also on a coaching course to become qualified they are paying. :) they have also put her on the club committee she is the youngest member they have had on it' i think this has helped her confidence levels. as from the end of feb i will be carer to my mother in law who lives alone and her sons do not live in harrogate she has slight dementia and really does not want to go into a home just yet if it can be helped. i offered to do this because living not too far from her i am able to go any time and can stay as long as needed on each visit also as i have known her for 26 years so know her little ways and where things are in her home,i can do silly little things like polish her silver with her and also talk about the past and know what she is talking about. the most important thing i can give her is consistancy just one person seeing to her as agency wont always be able to send same person each time and this may confuse her more. this also gives my brothers in law (will never call them ex in laws ) peace of mind and any way even though i am not really her daughter in law we still have a strong relatinship and i will always love her. better go now and get my beautiful daughter up for breakfast :) :)
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Re: My Girl

Postby Robert » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:39 am

Hello Emma. Great to hear from you again :)

Thanks for the update and positive news re your daughter. I can hear just how proud you are !

Hope everything goes well regarding your mother in law. Everything you say makes sense. Continuity is so important and its often the 'little' things that can make a big difference.

I love Harrogate. Not been for two or three years. Betty's tea shop and the gardens. Even tried some spa water one day which was pretty awful !

Best wishes,

Robert
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Re: My Girl

Postby Myrtle » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:11 pm

Well done to your daughter Emma :D
And well done to you losing the ex but not the in's :lol:
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light.
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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