THREAD: This is Nelly Gracia and her son Eddie, age 44.
They live in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Eddie undergoes dialysis 6 days a week, 5 hours a day.
He does dialysis from home.
He and his family haven’t had power for 7 days.
They were using a generator but it died today.
They live in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Eddie undergoes dialysis 6 days a week, 5 hours a day.
He does dialysis from home.
He and his family haven’t had power for 7 days.
They were using a generator but it died today.
Nelly drove her son to a dialysis facility which still has power so he wouldn’t miss a treatment.
This is what people in Puerto Rico deal with regularly.
There are Nelly & Eddie stories across the island. Why is the power out?
There’s no good excuse.
This is what people in Puerto Rico deal with regularly.
There are Nelly & Eddie stories across the island. Why is the power out?
There’s no good excuse.
There hasn’t been a natural disaster.
The power problems in Puerto Rico have long been human disaster: mismanagement, incompetence, greed, & laziness. All sides are to blame.
The power problems in Puerto Rico have long been human disaster: mismanagement, incompetence, greed, & laziness. All sides are to blame.
Caught in the middle are the people who have no power, and I don’t mean electricity...people like Nelly & Eddie who are at the mercy of the powers that be. Shameful.
An @AEEONLINE worker, driving his personal vehicle, stopped by Nelly’s home late tonight to identify the problem. He found it. But he didn’t have the equipment/ladder to fix it tonight. So, he said he would return tomorrow.
It’s now 7:15 PM and Puerto Rico and the employee who said he would return today has not returned, yet. I was told by the @AEEONLINE that the repair is “on schedule”
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