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    Barely survived S In storm

    JDancer
    JDancer Member Posts: 496
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    60 hours with no electricity, 72 hours without TV, phone or internet.

    Stuck in the house with a spouse that does nothing but watch TV and drink beer.

    I had to watch him every minute to prevent him from opening the fridge or trying to fix the TV. He fidgeted, paced, and repeated himself all day, for 3 days.

    I pity those of you who can't leave the house. I don't know how you manage. My daily trip to the Y for a swim keeps me sane.

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    • sandwichone123
      sandwichone123 Member Posts: 911
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      Wow, 60 hours! I can't imagine. How did you cope?

    • M1
      M1 Member Posts: 6,788
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      Glad it's over for you and you're okay. Nightmarish....

    • JDancer
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      I struggled. Full of pity, for him and myself. I can honestly say I felt suicidal and homicidal.

      Ironically, I toured a facility earlier this week, hoping to use the Medicare 5 day respite stay. At the end of the tour, I stopped by the facility's financial office and was told, "Oh, we don't bill Medicare." WTF?????

    • harshedbuzz
      harshedbuzz Member Posts: 4,971
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      @JDancer

      You have my sympathies.

      I once survived a widespread 5-day outage with an irrational middle schooler with autism. Had I known it would be so long, I would have checked into a hotel room.

      HB

    • Jgirl57
      Jgirl57 Member Posts: 584
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      So sorry JDancer! Last month we went about 30 hours with out power. My HWD/Alz could not remember we had a storm . I also had a hard time keeping the flashlights out of his hands because he kept “ putting them away “. I can’t imagine going thru it for 60 -70 hours. Yikes

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