Compassion fatigue.

Always difficult this one......discussing the help one receives from friends , neighbours , 'loved ones' , I believe even The Queen has been known to use that expression in our New Labour, loving caring, sharing, 'all in the community' world.
There is only so much that the people one knows can do or are prepared to do in the hurly burly, busy-busy, big city London is. A visitor here, a kind gesture there, all help of course and I'm not at all ungrateful, but lets face it people get bored of helping or doing....they want, after a busy day at work, to go home or eat out......they basically want to have fun.
But....(sorry i can't avoid it).....but 'compassion fatigue' sets in......one sees people less.....visits are promised, excuses are made......holidays are taken (it was Easter after all) and there comes a time when real help is needed. Or one ends up living in squalor and starving (take note the starvation is happening...one cannot live on the cakes and chocs from the kind visitors...Sarah take note ....4 large cakes from the M&S patisserie do not a balanced diet make. Simon will eat them when he shows............if he shows....but then he'll leave the crumbs all over the floor for the mice to eat and then i'm bed bound with rats and mice running over me. It's all entirely possible........and no 'Hitchcockian' nightmare.
The bed needs changing, the dust needs....dusting, the floors need cleaning, the bathroom needs scrubbing. Some food needs bringing in.......the everyday stuff needs doing. Westminster staff solution........looking into providing an hour of cleaning, and 1/2 hr to change bed, and and hour for shopping.........charge £13.50 per hr...........unless you can prove poverty..........well some of us still have some pride, and poverty, until i've sold off every last piece of furniture in the flat will not be something i'm admitting to.
£13.5O?????, people i know have cleaners for £10 or less......where is the common sense in that solution to helping an injured person?. 'We'll help you but you gotta pay above the market rate'.
The entire system is designed to drive us all to living in France or Australia or wherever....well those who can afford to at any rate.