A very very very...

...long day.

The Waterboard had said that work would finally start on my drains today. This was only after some very intensive chasing up by me to get this far.

Initially the waterboard had said the broken/collapsed drains were their responsibility because it is a shared drain with my neighbour next door. This was back in February. And my drains were to be done when the other shared drains were done in this road.

Most of the drains had been done, and I went out to check they were coming on to me next. Yes mine was to be next, but all the machinery and men etc had vanished the next week. Leaving my drains not repaired.

I spent the next few weeks chasing them up. A bit difficult when you are deaf and they do not communicate by email and insist on voice calls of the telephone as their only method of communication.

Finally with the help of Twitter and a tweet, they began communicating with me. And even gave me a text number. So that was good.

There was a lot of miscommunication at their end. The crew to had assessed the works had given them the wrong works number. So, I ended up photographing the works card and sent it to the waterboard.

Then they found the correct works that needed doing and assessed it as urgent.

Work was due to start today, this morning.

I didn't know what time the crew were going to turn up, so i was up before. 6 am to move the car off my driveway so they could access the drains.

To make sure I didn't miss them I have been sitting by the front window. I don't hear the door bell unless it is next to me, or I can feel it in my pocket, so I have been carrying that around all day. Or I was in the front garden dead heading, trimming, cutting down, etc etc.

I have had to be on the alert all day, and every movement I see outside, which is literally every few seconds, I am looking up and checking. This is exhausting. But alas no works crew for my drains.

I caught the sun on my face despite using suncream and it stings now.

By midday, I 'knew' the works crew were not coming.

I had already texted this morning to check all was okay for today, but no one replied.

By midday I am overtired with being on the alert so much for this. I normally have a nap midmorning if I am at home and I couldn't this morning in case I was unaware of the works crew at the door.

I have given prior permission for them to enter the grounds of the property if I am not here or don't hear or see the bell flashing. I have told the waterboard this. I have also asked them to text me from the front door so I wouldn't miss the works crew. I have set everything in place that I can for ease of communication. But no one ever does it.

I was getting very stressed by midday, so tried texting again, no reply, so went on good old Twitter agin with a DM to them. I got a text a short while later from the waterboard saying these works are urgent, the works crew know, the contractor knows, and he has been told to come this afternoon.

It is now half past 6 pm, and you have guessed it. No one called. My eyes have been glued to the road and my driveway from my front window. I am tired, fed up, my stress levels are up, my blood glucose readings are getting higher with this. Not helpful for my diabetes.

Been on the diabetic forum and checked with some people and they say stress is one of the biggest reasons blood glucose levels get raised, and it appears nothing much can be done.

I am annoyed because my daily readings have been good, at a good acceptable controllable level. I only have a higher reading at dawn, some people have a higher reading at dawn, others have a lower reading at dawn.

I have the upgraded cochlear speech processor in a couple of days, so that is going to be a day in the hospital which is a little distance from here. I had wanted to chill out these two days before I went.

There was no reason why the crew who did the works of everyone else's shared driveways in the road and not mine. I had given permission for them to start in my absence etc, I mentioned above. I carried that doorbell around for days then.

I don't know why this is proving so difficult.


So, this afternoon, trying to keep awake i downloaded Mirrograph on the Android that blouseybrown suggested yesterday which has an effect that I liked on an old iPad app, that I posted a drawing from yesterday.

These are 9 separate pictures I drew. I did draw more, but collages only do 9 pictures max.

These are just doodlings in my totally fed up mind this afternoon. I will work on doing something better later, but i am not up to doing much creativity today...


I hope you have had a better day than I have.
Take care x

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