I can't manage

[Supersimpkin]

I am struggling to manage housework. Every day I am left shaking with tiredness, muddled and stressed as I battle to complete the endless routine of chores and repairs in the little flat I live in.

I live alone in a small flat with a cat. You pathetic freak, I hear you say, not to manage.

But I have – at the moment – five exhaustion-causing diseases. Some of them can be managed, some can't. Brilliant GP who says 'you'll be rattling' as I get 38 pills daily.

The flat is opposite a vast building site in inner London, which means that the walls, machinery and electrics break down all the time from the vibrations of the tower block billionaires are building.

The cat breaks down all the time too – he is 16 and needs 6 feeds daily, medicating, endless vet trips.

This morning alone – it's not 10 am – I have tried to pull the new washing machine out to fix a leak, been up a ladder to fix a curtain that fell when the builders started hammering, and carried a table down 5 flights to the bin after the cat smashed it. Back up the ladder after the curtain fell again.

My hands are puffy and swollen with arthritis and I have a whole day to get through. Not including going to work.

Has anyone got any labour-saving tips? I can't manage. I must try and heal some of these sicknesses, too, and the relentless work is preventing rest.

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Could you have a friend come over to help maybe once a week?. There may be some church or charity groups in your area that can provide someone to visit and help.

God I'm so sorry, that sounds so tough. I'm guessing you can't afford paying for help or you would have done so by now.

What are some of your illnesses?

For joint and muscle pain, something like this comfrey salve might help.

If you are congested, or have a lot of mucus, fenugreek capsules are great for flushing the system - I healed my long term sinusitis this way. It took two years, but I was able to come off medication within a month of taking it, and stopped taking the fenugreek regularly after two years.

It's fairly brutal, but a 3 day water fast has been found to actually regenerate your immune system. If you want to try it, don't go straight into it. You need to prep for a few days, by reducing meat meals etc.

Can the building site not pay you compensation for getting repair people in for the disruption it's causing?

Thank you all so much.

The building site are venture capitalists from abroad, who've had more complaints than anyone ever in the borough, so I suspect not.

Fenugreek sounds brilliant, but dodgy sinuses are the least of my worries. I've got severe anemia, unstable thyroid, an infection I've had surgery for 3 times, chronic lung disease and a failing immune system. Not counting other normal middle-aged crap like fibroids, severe arthritis and asthma.

You don't have it easy!

I assume buidling regulations are not that different in the UK from where I am and every construction firm has to follow those, wherever the money for the building itself may come from.
There has to be neighbourhood involvement, restrictions on vibration and noise. Get together with your neigbours, contact project management and your local buidling authorities and raise a complaint.