I’m delighted to welcome back for a third time, David Price, aka Budge.
It's been a while since we last spoke on the podcast, and unfortunately life still hasn’t settled down.
Budge, Gina and Sam were moving into a bungalow owned by the council. They received the house keys on 18th December, but on the 19th, Gina had to return to hospital. After having a procedure in August, it had failed, and she had a little hole in her head which was leaking fluid, which left her very susceptible to infections. This meant they were stuck in hospital for around three weeks, missing Christmas.
During this time, Budge’s parents and Sam and their son were amazing. While Budge was going backwards and forwards to the hospital to spend time with Gina, Sam started to gradually take things to the new house. Then the three of them were living with Budge’s parents, who had turned over the ground floor of their house to the family.
After a couple of weeks, whilst caring for Gina, and helping Sam move things into the house, they needed to have contractors in doing certain things, because the house had previously been left empty for quite some time. This is when the problems started.
Hearing Budge talk about the issues they found in the house, both before and after council workers had been in the house, is inconceivable when you realise that this is a house that the Council have offered someone with the complex health issues and conditions that Gina lives with. The list of things that needed doing to the house was endless. At one point rooms in the house were actually locked so that Budge and his family couldn’t enter them!
This was a house that it had taken the council a year to find. For Budge and Gina, the system that was supposed to help was just broken!
I’ll be talking to Budge again soon about the issues they’ve also had with continuing support for physio and occupational therapy.
If you want to find out about care in any shape or form you can contact Janet:
Website: https://shreevecareservices.co.uk/
