After months of seeking help from maintenance crews and FEMA, a Westwego couple said the last four months inside their trailer have become an endurance contest.

Katha Rogers said a stroke after Katrina paralyzed her left side, which made living in a FEMA trailer extra challenging over the last 11 months while waiting for their new home to be built. But conditions became miserable when the trailer’s drainage and sewage system clogged up back in October.

"It's hell, because I can't go to the bathroom, I got to go to the bathroom, I'm going to tell you, honestly; I go to the bathroom in a slop jar, that's it,” Rogers said.

Katha’s husband Danny said he’s had to mop the shower stall countless times because of sewage backing up through the drain.

They go to a relative's house to shower and wash dishes in a pan in the sink, and then dump the dishwater outside. They're disgusted at having to live this way and tire of begging FEMA and maintenance crews for help.

“They said it’s gonna take about three weeks. Well, here it is – four months,” Katha said. “I call them all the time and they have no answer for me, they say, ‘FEMA's got to do it, they've got to raise the trailer up two feet more.’"

Last Saturday, the Rogers said the heating system failed. And as the temperature dropped to 52-degrees inside the trailer, Katha called maintenance and also asked when the sewage system would be repaired.

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Katha and Danny Rogers.

Katha explained: “And she says, ‘That's been fixed.’ I said no ma'am, it has not been fixed. She said, ‘Well, I'm showing here that it has already been cancelled out, it’s been repaired.’ I said no ma'am. So she gave me another requisition number and put it in…At this point, I feel like setting a match to this place and just walking away, or should I say roll away."

Eyewitness News contacted a spokesperson for FEMA and asked them to take action on this case and quickly. The Rogers said FEMA officials went right to work and called them in their trailer.

“I just hung up from FEMA, she said, ‘We're going to take care of this.’ She said, ‘This is uncalled for, for you to go four months with no sewage,’" Katha said.

After waiting all this time, the Rogers believe getting the trailer sewage system repaired would feel like a miracle.

“It'd be like in heaven,” Danny said.

A FEMA spokesman told Eyewitness News on Thursday that agency officials were working on the repair issue for the Rogers.