Something stinks...

[davidgillon]

I managed a whole 24 hours at home before getting to "I may need to throw everything in a bag and head back to my mother's." Which didn't make for a restful night's sleep.

Fortunately it looks like that infection is responding to antibiotics, it's just a pain in the backside that we can tell by her mental state that she has something starting about four days quicker than the medical system can confirm it and start treating it.

But that's yesterday's problem, today's problem where it would be useful to be there is drains/sewers backing up. Not to the point of getting in anywhere they shouldn't, but definitely to the point of knowing there's a problem. Next-door's 80+yo ex-husband (and more to the point ex-clerk of works) has stepped in to help try and pinpoint where the problem is, but half the downstream neighbours are out and the one next door to my sister's house is still furious with him and claiming he broke his drains the last time this was a problem, 30 years ago. Fortunately they decided to call off the fisticuffs and call out the waterboard.

Funniest line reported by my sister from the cantankerous 80yos: "You used to be married to that girl up the street" - J's just short of 80 herself, not sure she gets called 'girl' very much anymore! 

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[davidgillon]

Drains now fixed, though they're going to scheduled extra checking. Finger of suspicion now points at my sister's neighbour given they pumped out a bunch of bags of dogsh*t, something he's admitted flushing in the past.

[sovay]

Fortunately it looks like that infection is responding to antibiotics, it's just a pain in the backside that we can tell by her mental state that she has something starting about four days quicker than the medical system can confirm it and start treating it.

A classic!

*hugs*

Good luck with the drains; the thirty-year sewer soap opera is amazing. [edit] Have seen your update; my last comment still holds.

icon is a stretch, I know

[jesse_the_k]

Holy forkballs, David, that's a lot to manage from a distance.

Have the waterworks escaped privatization?

Everyone who works with elders knows that mental decline is sign #1 of an infection. I'm so sorry it takes that long for the system to respond appropriately.

Re: icon is a stretch, I know

[davidgillon]

The GP's surgery did actually react quickly, a doctor who rang about something else pre-empted the call scheduled for later that day and authorised testing as soon as my sister raised it, it just took several days to get a result from the sample. Just glad we got it sorted before the weekend, the local out-of-hours service works pretty well, but finding an open pharmacy can be a pain, and testing services basically shut down.

All UK water, both inbound and outbound has been privatised since Thatcher, but they can still be fairly good on the emergency side of things.

[rachelmanija]

SO MUCH good luck!

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