"Scary to think that this poor old lady and the children have to deal with hysterics and obscenities over something that could be handled with a few phone calls and some common sense."


Yeah, you're so right, Mary...I should just roll over and play dead.

I should have just sat there and said "Oh, I SAY, thanks *awfully* for that, m'dear. How utterly silly of me to think the NHS would care about a 95 year old lady and see what they could do to make her life more easy.

I do awfully apologise for being so thick and stoopid!

I'll go away, back to Prolesville and live my little life in the way I'm supposed to..."



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F*ck that!


Tell me, WHY do you think Kate brought round the details of who to ocmplain to, so fast? WHY do you think Radio Devon rang me back within minutes?

My country is in a terrible state and you know why, because people have STOPPED caring!   They shy away from anger, conditioned to just 'accept' these days...

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..f*ck that, too!




WHAT has happened to us all?

Are you SERIOUSLY telling me that you think the NHS is right? Or is it that being in America, if that's where you are, that you have no concept of what the National Health Service is about???

In Sidmouth, 10 years back, I rang Social Services and they were round in days, 2 handles fitted safely and securely. And that was that. Vi then could have a bath with dignity again.

Now, *she* is expected to buy those handles herself, then Age Concern, a charity, is expected to put them in? Kate even turned up with a 'Handyman' leaflet, with names of local Handymen who'd help out?????????

What will we have in another 10 years then, if we all roll over and play dead? No beds for 95 year olds because there aren't enough and the 75 year old deserve them more?

No medication for 95 year olds, because they're costing too much money and the new policy is to just let them die, get them out of the way.

Already, I have been told that a little, frail lady, is not considered eligible, under The New Criteria to have a bath because she can manage to stand up on her own. The fact she can't GET IN the bath, without handles, is irrelevant.

When my Dad was alive, we had District Nurses, and they came round free of charge to bathe people in their own homes. She used to stay for a cup of tea too, and have a quick chat to Dad. He so looked forward to her coming each week. It was as much about social care as health...Just after he died, they stopped the District Nurses. You have to pay these days to have people help you have a bath...

This is not just about 'handles'....it's about morality and so much that is wrong...and pathetic remarks such as the one I have quoted above, do nothing to help, because people who give in all the time are actually creating this terrible situation.