Condemned

Big Fish got stuck in the lift on Friday morning as he was getting ready with carers for me to take him to the festival. They rang me and I went and managed to get him out but the lift was stuck upstairs with him upstairs too and wouldn't go down. I rang council and asked for lift repair to come out urgently. They refused to repair it as apparently the lift was condemned in September last year (nobody told me) so he cannot use lift in house ever again. They said they would come and get him down in it and that was it. I phoned hundreds on Friday am and no answers. Eventually someone got back to me and suggested he go to respite a day early. So he went straight from festival to respite which he wasn’t happy about. Neither was I. He’s now there until Friday at least.
Occupational Therapy rang today to arrange meeting here on Wednesday and said with all the will in the world it is likely to be months before it’s sorted. So we can’t manage here with him downstairs for months and I’ve refused to let him stay in respite for ever. So I’ve asked for emergency holiday accommodation with a hoist and think I’ve found somewhere which is 16 miles from the horse and 29 miles from work.
I am in a state of shock and so angry. I really don’t want to go elsewhere but would be impossible to manage here.
Apparently the condemning got to the Occupational Therapy team asking them to organise new lift almost a year ago and nothing has been done about it. He could have been stuck in the lift choking and I might not have been able to get to him as I don’t travel in lift with him for the reason of being able to press buttons or activate the emergency release from outside of the lift in the event of a lift failure.
Dolly was inconclusive on Strangles test so is having to have a guttural pouch endoscopy to have a proper check whether infectious or not for the grand price of about £470 which I haven’t really got spare. If this test is negative, happening tomorrow, then she’s down on Wednesday otherwise it’s a two week or so wait for antibiotics to work.
All I seem to do in life is firefight and I’m heartily fed up of it. These are just two of the major issues. There have been more but not ones I can really share and none of them have been of my own doing. I feel I do nothing but whinge these days and sadly I cannot see the state of things changing as no one wants to spend anything on those less fortunate any more.