Preparedness for when

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FAMILY NUATHA so very sad to hear your news of poor MIL and thank heavens you could and did not only go to the rescue but had in place all you needed to set the path to recovery for her in place. It's such a harrowing time when loved ones are in trouble and I'll be hoping and praying for her and all of you to not only ask for a good outcome but for the strength for all of you as a family to endure anything that happens. Thinking of you my friends, Lyn xxx.

Karmacat

Nargleblast wrote: »

nuatha hope all goes well with mum in law.

From me too. I'm glad you had specific preps in place that helped - thanks for posting that list too.

thriftwizard

{{{Upholding vibes}}} for GQ's Nan and Nuatha's Mil...

Minor fan-impacting moment here; having survived two horrible trips to & from Wales - the main route is closed for long-overdue repairs, and Dorset is full of stuck caravans & baffled French lorry drivers sobbing gently over their wheels, murmuring, "But the sat-nav, he say she is a MAIN road!" necessitating the use of roads less-travelled & liberally pocked with potholes - my little C3 fell off its springs again last night when OH went to move it on the driveway. And the bigger car is stuck behind it...

It's being "recovered" to the garage at some unspecified point in the future, as they're desperately short-handed just now. Once it's back up & running again it'll find itself in Auto-trader pretty pronto & a van is looking a more than possible option again; it's no good the dratted thing being easy to park, good at fuel economy & cheap to tax if it's costing me a fortune in repairs!

Which leaves me a bit vulnerable on the looking-after-the-seniors front; there is no public transport service that goes directly to where my mother lives and it can't be done in less than 3 hours although it's only 26 miles. Luckily at this precise moment she is in fine fettle, having started to find her feet again after my stepfather's death, but it's not ideal...

Frugalsod

I wonder how long before goats are banned.

Softstuff

Sorry to hear your news Nuatha, I hope she makes a good recovery.

ivyleaf

nuatha So sorry to hear about your MIL, and Grey Queen I hope your Nan heals as quickly as possible.

Sorry, not feeling very coherent this morning! ((HUGS)) to everyone in need of some.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm very sorry to here about your MIL's stroke, nuatha, this was where we were as a family with Nan at the end of May 2014. Sending her good healing vibes and hoping that, as these things go, it is a relatively minor one.

Thank you. And I hope both your Nan and your folks have recovered from the hospital trip. Fingers crossed its a straightforwardly treatable diagnosis.

Subsequent to Nan's discharge from hospital, she has one of those wristband monitors which, if pressed, alert a control centre who then call, sequentially, stored numbers to alert the family/ medical services. It's come in handy a couple of times.

Thank you, I'd forgotten about those. Now I've been reminded I've seen a version that directly dials a sequence of programmed numbers. I'll investigate further.

Shows the wisdom of having made those preparations. I used to have the key to my parents' home on a separate keyring of seldom-used keys, to lighten my daily keyring, then thought that it would be a small burden to have it in the right place at the right time. I also have the keys to SG's flat, and she to mine, and contact details for her NOK (sister who lives about 20 miles away). If you never need them, it's all to the good, but when you have to alert someone, that information is priceless.

I carry two separate keyrings, the car keys has MiL's front door key as well as the keys for one of my regular clients. Both keyrings are considerably smaller than they were as I sourced eurolocks with matching keys (so home has three locks with a single key, client has done something similar). In hindsight I should have thought about changing MiL's locks to match, then one key would work with both properties.
As it happens I should have been taking Herself to an appointment in the afternoon. Having the appointment details and Herself's NHS number to hand became crucial in rearranging that appointment (I've never been asked for an NHS number before)
Being able to put your hands on information when you need it is vital, as GQ says if you don't need it, no matter.

I arrived at work this morning (MiL had a comfortable night, there is nothing left I can do before visiting hours, I've caught up with the urgent stuff, the non urgent has been postponed, now I'm typing this to keep busy and not worry about other things) to find the guy who lives next door took ill and went to the local walk in centre yesterday and hadn't returned. He's been admitted to the same hospital as MiL, so I'll be visiting two people this afternoon and trying to work out what from my car go bag will be useful for him or whether he has a hospital bag packed back at home.

Well, flat isn't awash yet, although it reeks of damp and I detest strong odours, have a very sensitive nose. Have got all the windows open to maximise the de-odourising potential before I go to work, but the problem won't be resolved until the fix. The plumber (well, he's a certified gas engineer type plumber, has worked on these systems for decades) reckons it'll dry out in a few days, it being what he calls the 'screed' which is the concrete platform which is my ceiling and her floor upstairs, presently saturated with spilled water from the pipe/ tank. Gordon Bennett, but I hope it's the pipe and not the tank.............!

I hope you return to a dry flat and that your upstairs neighbour is either around or finds her locks changed and the problem rectified.
I wonder what would happen if she doesn't pick the keys up for a few days. It would be hard to say that is her residence in that case.

Thank you for all the good wishes, they are very much appreciated.

GreyQueen

Oooh, the forum's changed since this morning, wasn't expecting that to happen. Not sure I like it as much as the previous one, but I shall cope.

Have contacted the gas plumbing people; there is a split tank upstairs and the new one goes in on Thurs. The split has been temp. sealed (fingers crossed it holds) and then the water can start to dry out. Once everything is bone dry, I shall repaint the inside of my airing cupboard to titivate it. Can't repaint the tank cupboard as the tank is encased in a hardboard shell and you can't get around it to reach the walls to paint them.

Place is still at sixes and sevens, but we'll get there in the end. Makes you feel very very sorry for those poor beggars who get 3-6 ft of water through their homes, where the heck would you start with the clear up?!

Hoping nuatha's MIL is comfortable. I have had a mini-stroke, and it was a terrifying experience, although most of the effects wore off in 15 mins and no permanant damage was done (they examined my head yet again, I swear the MRI scans of the inside of my head outnumber the pictures of the outside of it, in recent years).:rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

Oh...the forum has changed back to old style format and last post I can see on this thread is now the 12.35pm one today.

Don't know whether the change back was because I pushed the button to change back to old style format that was there on the feedback board thread??

EDIT; Correction = I just posted my post and now there is a 4.13pm post - but none between 1235pm and 4.13pm (though I know I certainly put a post up on it in the interim and had read others).

RAS

Was just reading about those for whom SHTF recently:

According to the NDMO Agriculture and Food Security Cluster, each household are entitled to 5Kg of rice, 1x425g of canned fish, 1x200g of canned beef and 2x85g of Maggi Noodles.

Thats the entitlement to food support per household for those whose homes, crops and fishing were devastated in cyclone Pam 10 days ago. To last for 15 days.

Beyond that, hope nuatha's MIL and GQ's nanna are getting better.