My mum is in her fifties, and her partner is fifty this year. My mums partner has asthma amongst a number of other difficulties in the chest area (angina, something else i don't know the name of annd is prone to chest infections). Shed on various tablets and inhaler thingies (at least three different ones off the top of my head (may be irrelevant but trying to give a full picture).
Their house is housing association property, and has recently gotten terribly damp and mouldy. Its really bad. I'm going over tomorrow and am going to attempt to do something about it, but obviously this isn't going to be a long term solution.
The problem is she won't ring the housing association. She says this is because she doesn't want the stress (?) and then ripping plaster out or something. But i suspect the amount of guinea pigs she has is the cause.
I don't know exactly how many she has (not counted). But it seems her care of them is detrimental to the rest of the house and her and her partners health. I think she needs to take a realistic look at the amount she has and cut down severely. Theirs is the only room in the house which isn't mouldy because they have heaters etc in there all the time (some are hairless so need to be warm and have heat mats etc) yet she says she cant afford to put the central heating on (which im led to believe would help the mould situation? Am i wrong).
I don't know what to say to her though. Surely even if my mum is happy to carry on knackering herself to clean them, this is a serious risk to her partner with the above mentioned chest problems?
AIBU to feel this way and what would you do? Should i just keep my thoughts on it to myself? I'm not sure it would make much of a difference of i said anything but its really bothering me. I love her partner (my step mum so to speak) and im scared shed going to die or be very ill.