Accident!!
On Saturday afternoon, we were heading to a family get together, and popped into see my Great Aunty Mary on the way.
Aunty Mary is a widower, and lives alone in a little bungalow in a quiet little estate, that is Warden controlled. She’s just had her 99th birthday and is very agile, cooks for herself, and always gets down on her hands and knees and chases our 2 boys around the front room when we visit…
When we arrived I went to knock on the door and found it ajar, alarm bells ringing, I pushed the door open and found Aunty Mary slumped up against the bathroom doorframe, blood smeared across the door from a gash on the back of her head, and obviously in distress.
I signalled to Wifey to come (she’s a nurse) and got straight onto dialling 999, no sooner had I been put through to the ambulance department, than a paramedic response vehicle pulled up!
Aunty Mary had managed to press the button around her neck that alerts the Care Response (this was after she had fell over in the kitchen, cracked her head on the table and broke her hip! And then crawled, yep CRAWLED 30ft to the front door to leave it open for the paramedics to get in).
Then a policman turned up, then an ambulance…to be brutally honest the paramadic staff and the policeman were fantastic, but that’s for another blog…
The Warden!!
Aunty Mary has had an unfortunate spell, and she’s had 2 mild heart attackes in the past 4 months and now this…it comes in 3′s right!?
In the bungalow next door lives the Warden. Who is supposed to pay regular visits to the residents etc, all she does with Aunty Mary is go in once a week sign a sheet of paper to say everything is dandy and leave! All of 5 minutes….if that!
This Warden, lets call her Maureen, is employed by the Housing Association, she has her bungalow paid for, is paid a wage, does sweet FA for the residents, only works Monday to Friday. A lot of the residents in Robert Daniels Court where she resides over, can’t stand her, they very rarely see her. Most would like to see the back of her!
There have been numerous complaints against her, from my Mum and her Sister, and a good friend of Aunty Mary’s as well as others. But all have fallen on deaf ears!
Not this time though!!
Maureen and I!
After I had been up to the hospital to ensure Aunty Mary was ok, I went back to her little bungalow, just to check windows were shut, and put the bins out etc….and noticed that the Warden’s car was there (she was out earlier, it was a Saturday remember! She doesn’t work weekends!!).
So I knocked on her door, she answered and I questioned her about the elderly lady next door, and how often she had been in hospital, how her health was etc, and her answers were semi correct, she was obnoxious and arrogant…as she was self indulging I walked away to the car….she called to me “Do you have a problem?” I retorted, “yes I do, with you! You are rubbish at your job, no-one likes you and I will be filing a complaint about you!”
She gave me the “What-ever” look/answer and attitude and walked indoors. I was livid, and had she been a bloke I am sure I would of punched her! Twice!!
What got me the most was, Maureen did not even ask me who I was. I could of been a burgular casing the place next door, I could of been anyone, and this woman did not once stop from giving me health info, name, age etc of the elderly lady she lived next door to. For me this is very unproffessional!
Eleanor Laing
I am going to write a letter of complaint to Eleanor Laing MP. Mrs Laing is Conservative MP for Epping, which covers the parish of Theydon Bois where Aunty Mary lives. I shall be, in no uncertain terms, logging an official complaint.
I shall also be writing to Epping Forest Council, the Theydon Bois Parish Council and to Home South. Home South are the company who run the warden control facilities.
This Maureen woman will not like me!
I do not care! She is a horrible selfish woman, who is conning her bosses and mistreating her residents.
This is only the beginning!