How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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My Mum's brother...now departed these many years, had lost both his legs due to diabetes and refusing to look after himself.
When the first leg went he could still walk with a zimmer frame but when the second was also removed he spent all his days sat in an electric wheelchair.
He had ramps etc to get to the bathroom and a urine bottle like from a hospital to save him going to the bathroom all the time
His electric wheelchair broke. A lot. One engineer came round to fix it and was nearly boaking as what had caused it to break down was urine getting into the workings. And stinking.
When Uncle ***** died, all the carpets had to be replaced as they were soaking in urine, in fact a couple of floorboards had rotted.
Oh and the walls and ceiling were a nice mustard colour from all the smoking.
The really shocking thing? (we lived in Germany so couldn't be there to look after him) He had TWO home helps. The only things they helped him do were strip his house of all the decent upstairs furniture/ stuff of any value/helped him spend his incapacity benefit. They certainly didn't clean up or assist him in any way.
Yes he could have done better for himself than piss everywhere, probably. I imagine that depression from losing his legs might have made him care a little bit less about all that sort of stuff.
I still maintain that someone that lets it all go that bad is crying for help just as much as someone that slits their wrists. Hardly anyone cares though about a middle aged man with no legs stinking of piss. Certainly not the Forces Benevolent Fund my Mum begged for help. He was a veteran, after all is said and done.
I feel sorry for the poor cunts that bought the house after he died. They got a right bargain on it but Jesus...
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Sallyrsm, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 17:26,
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Sad story: a virtual hug and a very real *click* for sharing this.
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Vambo, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 22:33,
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I'm shocked, don't you have health care in the UK, or a Veteran's Hospital like the US? I can go at any time and be seen.
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HouseThis house wasnt in Aberdeen was it? if so, my sister bought it.
She got a house for a really low price due to it being fucking rank inside. The old owner was wheelchair bound, so upstairs was ok, but completely stripped and obviously untouched for many years. The downstairs was rancid though, with yellow walls and little stalactites of nicotine hanging from the ceilings. I had to gut and replace most of it, including the flooring.
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Its just wrong.That someone can be treated like that in this day and age........
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