Comments on: No one bothered to check http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/03/08/no-one-bothered-to-check/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:58:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/03/08/no-one-bothered-to-check/#comment-8544 Bene Diction Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:55:49 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2291#comment-8544 A none compliant diabetic in a building I lived in used to ask for help with little tasks like changing lightbulbs. I knew she was really sick, and those little tasks would turn into an hour of listening to a litney of complaints when all I wanted to do was beg her to follow medical advice and stop complaining. I knew she was friendless and lonely. She died in her sleep a few hours after I'd fixed something in her apartment and I didn't find out for days. I have to include myself in the sense of shame and neglect of others also. A none compliant diabetic in a building I lived in used to ask for help with little tasks like changing lightbulbs.

I knew she was really sick, and those little tasks would turn into an hour of listening to a litney of complaints when all I wanted to do was beg her to follow medical advice and stop complaining. I knew she was friendless and lonely.
She died in her sleep a few hours after I’d fixed something in her apartment and I didn’t find out for days. I have to include myself in the sense of shame and neglect of others also.

]]> By: Jan http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/03/08/no-one-bothered-to-check/#comment-8541 Jan Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:23:08 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2291#comment-8541 Bene, We've had quite a few incidents here in Sydney this year already like that. http://jan2132.typepad.com/shalom/2006/02/neighbours.html One post I wrote last month about that and there is a second, immediately after. Since then, I think there have been three more awful discoveries, and remember it's summer down here and HOT. One comment from a neighbour was "They would think I was crazy if I knocked on their door." We are scared to investigate and too involved in our own lives often to notice whether we have seen the neighbour for a while. I include myself here too. I see very little of my elderly neighbour, althugh I know her family checks regularly on her. I ring my mum twice a day and get someone else who lives close to check if she doesn't answer iafter a few calls. I appreciate her neighbours who put her bin in for her, pick up the paper and put it on the porch etc. Jan Bene,
We’ve had quite a few incidents here in Sydney this year already like that.

http://jan2132.typepad.com/shalom/2006/02/neighbours.html

One post I wrote last month about that and there is a second, immediately after.

Since then, I think there have been three more awful discoveries, and remember it’s summer down here and HOT.

One comment from a neighbour was “They would think I was crazy if I knocked on their door.”

We are scared to investigate and too involved in our own lives often to notice whether we have seen the neighbour for a while.

I include myself here too. I see very little of my elderly neighbour, althugh I know her family checks regularly on her. I ring my mum twice a day and get someone else who lives close to check if she doesn’t answer iafter a few calls. I appreciate her neighbours who put her bin in for her, pick up the paper and put it on the porch etc.

Jan

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