As above.
It really is bad. Issues include:
-broken plumbing/toilets, so bathing and even defacating is problematic. Burst pipe or something of that sort means kitchen floor is slimy and slippery with crap like decomposing cat food ...
-my father will NOT close the back door because he claims cats need to be able to get in and out at will, which they do, often dragging in corpses of rats and birds and leaving them strewn around inside
- every room has so much rubbish that you can't see the carpet. Dirty rubbish like unwashed plates/food remnants plus empty wine casks, failed Lotto tickets, cigarette butts....
-practically no cutlery or crockery (how do they eat and drink?) or what there is will always be encrusted in filth and you can't wash dishes because of the plumbing ....
And so on and so on.
My dilemma is that I want to call the Health Department but my brother says he'll "never forgive me" if I do that ... He is sure he will get into trouble, and Dad will have to go into a home, which would (it is true) be so expensive that in all likelihood it would cost Dad all his savings and his 2 properties ( which include the house of horrors as just described plus a run down flat which I am currently living in ...of course this complicates things, that I am living in place my father owns)
Shit I dunno what to do - don't want to alienate my brother: he is practically all I have.
At the same time I don't want my dad to die or seriously injure himself tripping over rubbish and falling down the stair.
I hate that house. My mother committed suicide there in 2013. I wish it would burn to the ground (provided my brother and father were unharmed of course).
It really is bad. Issues include:
-broken plumbing/toilets, so bathing and even defacating is problematic. Burst pipe or something of that sort means kitchen floor is slimy and slippery with crap like decomposing cat food ...
-my father will NOT close the back door because he claims cats need to be able to get in and out at will, which they do, often dragging in corpses of rats and birds and leaving them strewn around inside
- every room has so much rubbish that you can't see the carpet. Dirty rubbish like unwashed plates/food remnants plus empty wine casks, failed Lotto tickets, cigarette butts....
-practically no cutlery or crockery (how do they eat and drink?) or what there is will always be encrusted in filth and you can't wash dishes because of the plumbing ....
And so on and so on.
My dilemma is that I want to call the Health Department but my brother says he'll "never forgive me" if I do that ... He is sure he will get into trouble, and Dad will have to go into a home, which would (it is true) be so expensive that in all likelihood it would cost Dad all his savings and his 2 properties ( which include the house of horrors as just described plus a run down flat which I am currently living in ...of course this complicates things, that I am living in place my father owns)
Shit I dunno what to do - don't want to alienate my brother: he is practically all I have.
At the same time I don't want my dad to die or seriously injure himself tripping over rubbish and falling down the stair.
I hate that house. My mother committed suicide there in 2013. I wish it would burn to the ground (provided my brother and father were unharmed of course).
