It seems ages since I last updated this, in fact it has been ages. I apologise to everyone because I've not done any updates for a while, I just been obsessed with getting a bungalow. I can't really think of MS implications, I have just managed to build an intense dislike for this house, and my situation.
I feel totally abandoned by everyone who has any power over the situation. It seems to me that they have not taken into account the fact that I have not been able to even get into the garden area for over one year. How would they like being a prisoner for that length of time? They seem to think that I am applying to move because I feel like it not through necessity even though I have got medical priority. I am sure they think that if they leave me long enough I will be grateful for a flat.
It is not just the access to the house that causes problems, since the modernisation I am finding it increasingly difficult to have shower. The powers that be decided that I MUST have a bath fitted and the only one that would fit in the space was a lot shorter and deeper, I have tried a bath twice and the second time got well and truly stuck, my legs just aren't strong enough to push me up that distance and my non-functioning right arm doesn't help. The equipment people provided me with a board that fits across the bath to enable me to have a shower, but when I sit on the board my feet dangle, and as my right leg won't lift without manual help, and so lifting my legs into the bath is very difficult and, I feel, dangerous considering my lack of balance. So I am reduced to re-enacting the days when bathrooms were not the norm, using a face-cloth on the bod, but my hair is another problem, I have to brave the battle of the bath to do that. Considering the fact that I used to be able to rise and have a shower and be in the car within 30 mins when I was working and on the morning shift, which meant having to be at work 5.30 am. So you can imagine the hardship I feel with the present situation.
Well it is Wednesday again, and there is only one suitable bungalow on the list, albeit 12 miles from here. It is 7 miles out of the city which would mean my daughter will be about 14 miles away from me, which will be no problem. There is, however, a train station about 2 miles further out of the city, which only takes 12 mins to the city centre, and it has two bedrooms, a walk in shower [what we would call a wet room] and a decent sized garden [we think] even if the décor isn't up to much being the ever hopeful beings that we are, we will register an interest.
Reading about the process at their end yesterday I noticed that they say the process generally takes 1 week from the closing date. Working on that basis the only one we are likely to hear about this week is one that has only one bedroom and a very narrow garden for the dog but we still will have an option to turn it down.
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