The Red Cross just delivered some bathroom equipment which will help J. I had to test it first – after all I can hardly tell her it’s safe because it says so in the manual. It is very odd moving into and out of a bath when you limit yourself to the equipment and more so when it’ll be done in the wet. Machinery can be a nice thing but raising and lowering in a bath feels genuinely strange – and I could get out if I needed to. Apparently we cannot use it until the person who ordered it for J has been around and checked it, done a risk assessment and shown us how to use it. Well the guy checked it, she should have done the assessment already and I can figure the rest out all on my own. And if it can take me, it’ll take J. And it was indeed the Red Cross. Not the Council, not any part of the NHS. So either the Red Cross are filling a gap or the NHS are leaving that gap because they know the charity will fill it. As I have said before, do not think that Services we have – and that your tax apparently pays for – are there to help you. It is an illusion.