Beyond Ridiculous

I am fed up, so much so that I could spit....

This last few weeks we have had so many power failures that it is no longer acceptable as far as I am concerned.  ESKOM threaten to load shed because they can't supply us with enough electricity and here we sit in rural lands, just outside the hub of the country, where the municipality doesn't seem to be able to keep us connected anyway.  It's not like it's even an hour here or an hour there, but it's anything from 12 hours and longer at a time.  Last night we were without power from about half past four in the afternoon, right through to just before seven this morning.  As I've mentioned before, we are geared up for outages to a degree but my biggest bugbear is that ultimately it affects NiQi's health.

She has been home for a week today and as it is she didn't come back feeling as chipper as she was hoping to so she really needs to keep up with her treatment as best she can.  So last night with no power, it meant firstly that she couldn't run her feed through her PEG, and secondly she couldn't use her oxygen machine.  It's a good thing she had a full cylinder to use, which managed to carry her through the night...but guess what??????  Currently we are again with no electricity and if it doesn't come on before tonight then she is going to have to go through the night without oxygen and miss another feed.  At least she is able to do her nebulizers as the inverter is gives enough to be able to run her machine to do them.....GRRRRR I've had enough now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!