At last. The wood store roof!

As you see. Lee is on the garage roof fixing the wood store roof on the end there. We are on week four of his new medication and I think fingers crossed and all that it is having a good effect.

Lee is much better in himself and not so depressed sitting in his garage drinking and smoking. He was spending way way too long on his own anyway. The professor took him off his old meds in December and he was supposed to start the next new ones after four weeks. NHS time scales turned into six months with no control over rheumatoid arthritis........pain all the time and every time we called the hospital we were told they would phone back in 48 hours.

This was all made a good deal worse by a neighbour who just decided one day to yell and threaten Lee over a little tiny parking space outside his rented house. The "parking space" if you call blocking a street a parking space......is nothing to do with either of them. Lee needs access to the house and sometimes we bring the car round to off load shopping etc and neighbour insists on parking and will not move for us. In fact he threatened "to put him on his back if he knocks on my door"....

Then it all escalated because bully neighbour got a tax bill. What has that got to do with us? nothing. except that bully neighbour sees Lee out in the garage and it irritates him. so he hurls abuse....kind of like this.......

" Fucking scrounging bastard. lazy work shy bastard sponging off his wife and the state. I am going to report you. lazy bastard sitting there drinking and smoking whilst yer wife works.........You drunk again? Next time I see you filming yer self whilst cutting wood I.m reporting you. benefit fraud. You are not disabled I saw you under that car. ....fucking lazy bastard...eh you and me lets go out on street and sort it out now...fucking flatten yer....etc etc etc....."

If either of us can get a word in through the tirade his wife chips in
"Don't you speak to him like that....I know you are on benefits you told me."

This has not helped either of us. Yes I know. This is West Yorkshire Never expect help or sympathy. This time it went one better. We just got threatened with violence.
Father comes over some times.....not as often as he did! and always just goes on about how he went with Lee's mother to the hospital appointments way back in the 1960's. The only treatments were steroid injections then too. Lee's mother was just about crippled. Times and medication have changed but people's perception has not. Father has to this day no idea what Rheumatoid arthritis does to a human body . He still asks when his next steroid injection is and how long it lasts.We try and explain the medication and treatments of today. All fall on deaf ears....Mind you that is pretty much across the whole human spectrum!!! even others who like to winge about their own health just talk about themselves......not interested in any solutions.

Bully neighbour has now bad mouthed us to everyone who will listen,,,,and some that had no choice and no one speaks to us at all. ......next door have gone on holiday leaving their car parked blocking the path in and out of the terrace. we can not bring our car around now even if we wanted too. The keys have been left with bully boy.....in case he needs to move it.
are you sure about that? asked Lee...as in the past Lee has been left with the keys to the car. Yes I am sure.

So we get on with the roof and yes thank you Lee is looking and feeling much better.