After my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, we moved in with our daughter.
He was no longer able to work, and we couldn’t afford our home.
We sold the house to help pay for his medical bills the insurance didn’t cover, and I continued to work. I refused to let my daughter shoulder all the bills. The only thing I didn’t like about her home, was the furnace. I told her she needed to get the HVAC technician to the house, to make repairs. She told me the furnace didn’t need repairs. What the furnaced needed, was to be replaced, and she was going to replace it in the spring. I worried that everyone was going to freeze to death if she waited that long. Our grandson needed to be safe. I called the HVAC company the next day, and asked about a new HVAC system for the house. I told him I would pay cash. I casually asked my daughter what she thought about the ductless HVAC system. She said she and her husband had been considering put it in the house, but she couldn’t do anything until he came home from overseas. I asked if her dad and I could contribute to it since we were now living with her. She thanked us and said it would be appreciated. A week later, the ductwork was being blocked off, and they were installing ductless HVAC in the house. I paid for it with the money from the sale of the house, and the rest was in the bank for other emergencies.