So, I, at that time, didn't think that I could have asked for help from Social Services or someone. I never approached anyone. I just made some adjustments at home.
Gurbinder Virdee
My mother in law, she regularly comes to visit me. They come for three months, stays with me, and then they go back home. So time came that with age, it was difficult for her to be on her own. And she needed help. So I asked time off from work or work from home. And I was refused at the time.
They said, 'no, you can't do that. Are you going to be making cups of teas for your mother in law, or are you going to be working?' So I said my mother in law isn't a bedridden patient, twenty-four hour care, in that sense.
Anyway that besides the point. Then next when she came she deteriorated more in her health. So by then, I just did things. I don't have a bathroom downstairs but I had a toilet downstairs. Because she was only here for three months. I couldn't get her up the stairs. So we made adjustments and had the bed downstairs.
The problem was the bathroom. And with her, even with her age, she's a person that would have a bath every day. So, I, at that time, didn't think that I could have asked for help from Social Services or someone. I never approached anyone. I just made some adjustments at home. To make sure I gave her a bath every day.
This is just before the COVID. I'm pleased with myself that I helped her in that way, the proper way she needed. Even though it wasn't from asking for help.
I bought a swimming pool, a small one, whichI fill in with water. Yeah. So I got a stool, made her sit on that, and then give her a bath that way. She was 93, maybe?