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living with a chronic condition (part 4)

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  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    I've been on the council transfer list for an accessible property for 4 years now, as it is apparently not possible to adapt the bathroom (or the 35 steps up to the front door).

    Unfortunately, because I have a life and a family, I can't just take any old third floor bedsit they offer - I have to wait for a three bedroom house (all flats in the borough have heavy security doors which I can't manage very well) - and so far I have been offered places which have steep steps up or down to each, all of which were rejected by the OT.

    Oh, and only 3 families on the transfer register have been rehoused in the last 7 years according to a freedom of information request, so my chances are minimal. As there is no legal right to keep clean or get safe access to your home, as compared to an office, the DDA doesn't apply.

    Darn it! I should have had more children and not got ill - I'd be in a house by now if I had.

    I'm also on the waiting list for an adapted property JoJo.
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    Bath board here (OT), & a large handle on the wall to use getting on/off the loo! I was hanging onto the wash hand basin but as was pointed out it could easily pull off the wall.
    Also the OT had a shower put in for me, which is lovely as just standing under the hot water is good for pains.
    Hope you are feeling a bit better Pipkin, I'm busy trying to find a cardie I like as I am so feeling the cold.

    I've got the handles mousey,and bannisters on both sides of the stairs - which really helps.

    I'm not feeling so cold now and the hip pain has died down as I took some oramorph.

    I need to find a big chunky cardigan :)

    How are you feeling hun?
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • bigzippy
    bigzippy Posts: 4,034 Forumite
    I've just given up and bought a deerstalker type hat :o...but it would appear that they're "in" right now so managed to get a grey NY one ;) Got proper earache from this sinusitis business tho, and had to go back for more antibiotics today from the doc before bonny Scotland tomorrow:rolleyes:
    "I am indelibly stained by hope and longing" - Nuts in May
  • black_paw
    black_paw Posts: 1,791 Forumite
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    oh Sherlock ! hope your feeling better tomorrow xx
    the truth is out there ... on these pages !!
    <3
  • hassie
    hassie Posts: 124 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Nips in for a nosey and wonders who let off the stink bomb !!!!!!!!!!
    well the room got cleared by something !!!!!
    Waves and goes away to the fresh air :hello::hello::hello:
  • jazabelle
    jazabelle Posts: 1,707 Forumite
    I think we're mostly in the cafe thread now hassie :)
    "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." - Orison Swett Marden
  • hassie
    hassie Posts: 124 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thanks hun ,I did know but it's so quiet after the fibro thread .I was just being slightly sarcy xxxxx:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • sammy10
    sammy10 Posts: 177 Forumite
    hassie wrote: »
    Nips in for a nosey and wonders who let off the stink bomb !!!!!!!!!!
    well the room got cleared by something !!!!!
    Waves and goes away to the fresh air :hello::hello::hello:

    Sorry :o:o:o Promise I wont have beans again ;)
  • hassie
    hassie Posts: 124 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Ha.haha :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, nice one Sammy.Hope you are ok love xxxx:rotfl::D:D:D
  • sammy10
    sammy10 Posts: 177 Forumite
    Im not too bad thanks but your not allowed to ask me in here its "off topic" :rolleyes::p So I wont say how are you;)
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