LPA moves ahead

I bit the bullet this morning and raised the issue of obtaining LPA for my mum with my brother. I shouldn't have worried; he was in reasonable mode and agreed straight away that it was a good idea for me to press on with the project.

He himself was preoccupied by his own problems, namely a possible recurrence of his ureteric calculi. Pain was beginning to mount in one loin, with the rumblings of danger that implies. It might all fade away as quickly as it started, or it could rapidly escalate into unmitigated agony, and a crash admission to a hospital where they could administer the blessed morphine and arrange for ablation of the stone. I feel for him.

Here at home I downloaded the appropriate documents for LPA from a government website (easy as pie) and began to fill them in. In this way I hope to escape the hefty fee charged by the solicitor when we went though this with my FiL. The only hassly part is where I have to accompany mum to her GP for him to complete his part (also doubtless for a handsome fee) Then after everyone has signed the forms, we send them to the Court of Protection (along with their fee of £120) and in a few months time the deal will be done. And, like an insurance policy, we then hope it will never have to be used. But it will be there if we need it.