A woman suffering from bowel cancer has been left with a toilet that spews raw sewage onto her bathroom floor, forcing her to travel three hours to use her sister's loo.
Pensioner Maggie Siksnys has been dealing with a sinking toilet since June.
The toilet doesn't have a back, which means water pours straight out onto the floor when she flushes it, MyLondon reports.
Maggie, who is in her late 60s, said: “I smiled my way through cancer but this is worse than cancer. This is a different level to even having cancer.
“I feel like I am living in the third world to tell you the truth. I was born in a Peabody flat. I cannot live here anymore.”
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Maggie, who has lived on Peabody Avenue in Victoria, South London, her whole life, is now left dodging stagnant pools of water when she goes to the loo.
She is forced to use her toilet due to her condition but has to put any toilet paper or wipes in a nearby bin to avoid the risk of it ending up on her floor.
Peabody, her housing association, has placed two bits of wood under the toilet.
While this stops the toilet from moving, it still rotting the floor beneath and caused a sinkhole to form around the toilet.
Maggie is due to have a major operation for her bowel cancer soon as she carries around with her an envelope of health documents at all times in case she suddenly falls ill.
Maggie said: “The last thing I needed was for the toilet to be unusable. I need the bathroom more regularly.
“They came in and said it was an emergency and put it down for work. They came a month later but I haven’t seen them since.
“I have been going to the toilet at my sisters in Kent. It’s three hours travel.
“The whole toilet is sinking. It’s embarrassing when you have got a problem like that.”
Due to her cancer, Maggie struggles to lift herself off the toilet at the best of times but she has been forced to grab onto the bath and sink while the toilet shakes beneath her.
Despite her best efforts to clean the mess, the water still returns each day.
She added: “I am spending more time out the flat than in it. It’s adding to my anxiety and because of this I’m not sleeping very well.”
A Peabody spokesperson said: “Peabody Avenue is a well maintained, regularly inspected estate that is in good condition.
“Where leaks or other issues arise in individual properties we deal with them promptly in the vast majority of cases.
“We are not experiencing an increased level of repairs at this estate and will look at all urgent cases within 24 hours if they are brought to our attention.
“Some residents with additional needs on the estate are also being supported by our tenant and family support team and the council."
They added that investment in the estate was being "scaled up" after the pandemic, and that a backlog of repairs was being worked through.
Peabody also claimed to have "attended all urgent repairs promptly" on the Victoria estate.
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