I have a carer in the morning and evening. All they have to do is make me something to eat for the day, feed the kittens, open the curtains (morning). Heat up something my daughter cooked for me, feed the kittens and close the curtains (at night). The company knows my predicament (emphysema) and yet, tonight, they send a carer who has a throat invection. If I had let her cook for me, I might as well have slit my wrist. An infection is going to do me in at this junction. Two 'phone calls later, nobody has turned up and I wont be eating tonight.
I know this sounds like a 'pity me', but it's a light shining into how we are treated.