Worse Than An IA

How shocking. My condolences, PB.  Yet another reminder - carpe diem! Do it now.

PB, what an awful situation. So tragic.


We have friends who have been in Galway who haven't had water for 2 months. This all happened before the freezing temps, so it's a pre-existing problem. His mother has Alzheimer's and even with a full time carer, with no water, they've had to be there to give her additional care. The house is 1.5 miles from the city centre and the council is incapable of getting running water there. Basically, the council has said it's 'unfortunate'. Unbelievable.

There was a spot on the news about it. Not sure if it works outside of Ireland.

http://www.tv3.ie/videos.php?video=31135

Thanks all, I appreciate the thoughts. 

We have friends who have been in Galway who haven't had water for 2 months. This all happened before the freezing temps, so it's a pre-existing problem. His mother has Alzheimer's and even with a full time carer, with no water, they've had to be there to give her additional care. The house is 1.5 miles from the city centre and the council is incapable of getting running water there. Basically, the council has said it's 'unfortunate'. Unbelievable.

There was a spot on the news about it. Not sure if it works outside of Ireland.

http://www.tv3.ie/videos.php?video=31135

That's shocking!!!

We have friends who have been in Galway who haven't had water for 2 months. This all happened before the freezing temps, so it's a pre-existing problem. His mother has Alzheimer's and even with a full time carer, with no water, they've had to be there to give her additional care. The house is 1.5 miles from the city centre and the council is incapable of getting running water there. Basically, the council has said it's 'unfortunate'. Unbelievable.

There was a spot on the news about it. Not sure if it works outside of Ireland.

http://www.tv3.ie/videos.php?video=31135

Sorry, but in my book that is not an 'unfortunate' situation, that's deplorable & disgraceful...shame on you Galway City Council, shame on you!

How shocking. My condolences, PB.  Yet another reminder - carpe diem! Do it now.

Definitely!  The other thing that really upsets me about news like that - is when I hear that young people (and often young men) delay seeking medical treatment, when they are ill.

I am always reminded of a friend of mine back in Kansas City.  One of her brothers was a young man, young family - wife and couple of kids, who had a bad cold & just kept working & working & working (I think he did some kind of construction work) - you know the "don't need to see the doctor - it'll be fine - I'm a real man's man, I'll just keep going to work, no worries" - all that jazz.  Collapsed & dropped dead with pneumonia, didn't get to the hospital until it was too late - leaving his young wife a widow, his children fatherless, his entire family bereaved.

Not saying that PB's friend was like that, but it just makes me upset when I hear that someone's SO is really ill & refusing to go to the doctor - because I will always remember just how sad that was for my friend's family. 

 
That's shocking!!!

Sorry, but in my book that is not an 'unfortunate' situation, that's deplorable & disgraceful...shame on you Galway City Council, shame on you!

Absolutely! I said to Sinead that TV3 could have come up with an adjective stronger than 'unfortunate' and she said that's how the COUNCIL responds to it! Disgusting.

Definitely!  The other thing that really upsets me about news like that - is when I hear that young people (and often young men) delay seeking medical treatment, when they are ill.

Me too. I find that so upsetting as well. 

Oh more crap news-
My bestest friend, who's like a sister, the one who two weeks ago I said she was getting biospy for a bone tumour, well... 
She's been confirmed to have bone marrow cancer.  I just called her and she's in OK spirits. 
So she's been referred to an oncologist and she'll know more next week about how to treat it, etc.

Well this is just horrible news. Boss called us for a meeting. A fellow employee, a pretty young guy with kids, passed away last night. He had been not feeling well the last few days and having back pain. He went to A&E last night and passed away in the ICU from a flesh eating bacteria of some sort.  

Flesh eating bacteria?  How scary and awful!

Oh more crap news-
My bestest friend, who's like a sister, the one who two weeks ago I said she was getting biospy for a bone tumour, well... 
She's been confirmed to have bone marrow cancer.  I just called her and she's in OK spirits. 
So she's been referred to an oncologist and she'll know more next week about how to treat it, etc.

I'm so sorry.  I hope there's a good treatment for her.

Oh more crap news-
My bestest friend, who's like a sister, the one who two weeks ago I said she was getting biospy for a bone tumour, well... 
She's been confirmed to have bone marrow cancer.  I just called her and she's in OK spirits. 
So she's been referred to an oncologist and she'll know more next week about how to treat it, etc.

Best of luck to her. It's a crap disease and the treatments are pretty crap too so hope it's not going to be too tough.

pb, so sorry to hear about your friend.  Hugs to you.

I'm sorry about your friend pb.  I hope they caught it in time. 

Bmore-that's completely rubbish about your friends and their water situation.  Absolutely horrible.

She's been confirmed to have bone marrow cancer.  I just called her and she's in OK spirits. 
So she's been referred to an oncologist and she'll know more next week about how to treat it, etc.

Oh geez. Having been through very similar stuff over the past two years though, there IS hope. If you want to PM me any questions or pass her my email address, just let me know. (and totally don't answer this if you don't want to, but do you know what kind of "bone marrow cancer"? I'm trying to figure out if it's MDS, what I had)

Thanks guys.  Definitely worried about her/

Oh geez. Having been through very similar stuff over the past two years though, there IS hope. If you want to PM me any questions or pass her my email address, just let me know. (and totally don't answer this if you don't want to, but do you know what kind of "bone marrow cancer"? I'm trying to figure out if it's MDS, what I had)

Thanks! I will ask her if she'd like to be in contact.  She may be, because she was actually interested in a cancer walk and I know you did your runs for the Anthony Nolan trust. 
I will probably PM you as well as I know more and have more questions. I think she said its plasmacytoma, but her head was spinning with information, so she said "All I can really remember were the words bone marrow cancer."   

Sorry to hear that, PB. We also lost an employee over the holidays, she was 23 and a newlywed. She died in her sleep - she was diabetic, and had been bad with a flu or stomach virus of some sort. I didn't know her, but it was terribly sad to hear the news.