Hi Everyone
Hope you’re all well. Thought I’d join the “filling the page” campaign.
My house is now box free after my failed move. I’ve had a new loo put in upstairs (downstairs bathroom) in my airing cupboard and it is wonderful. Something so pathetic can make a huge improvement. My kitchen has been replaced and I have an eye level oven so I’m less likely to drop our dinner bending and trying to pull it out, have done that a few times…
My OT has been wonderful, she’s had a banister put up on my curved staircase making it safer and less of a mountain and she’s going to get me a fancy new loo downstairs. It has a name which I don’t remember but it washes and dries you. Didn’t know such things existed and thought I’d mention it in case any of you struggling as I am with personal care, may find it worth discussing with your OT’s.
I’m now physically broken but in good spirits. Life is good and everything happens for a reason. If my potential house move hadn’t happened I’d never have got these big jobs done, re decorated or sorted out and got rid of my rubbish. The light at the end of the tunnel does exist.
Take care
Cath xx
Hi Cath, what great news. It seems to have worked out really well… the planning to move and then not moving… as you say you would never have got all those jobs done if you hadn’t planned to move. Sometimes things really do seem to happen for a reason! Very pleased for you!!! I know it’s all very exhausting… but worth it in the long run. Enjoy your ‘new’ house. Pat xx
Well done Cath, it must have all been a nightmare but, hopefully, all worth it in the end Hope you’ll feel happy and settled now. Take care, Nina x
Thanks ladies, I’m exhausted and having a quiet day (by necessity rather than choice) I’ve hung a few pictures and that’s about it. But I’ve got dressed too so I don’t feel as lazy. I have to go to school this evening to see my daughter’s masterpiece, a triangular coffee table with a lazy Susan and storage in the base. Yes, like you I’m struggling picturing it but both her and her woodworking teacher are very pleased!! I will be impressed no matter what it looks like as we mothers are so good at being.
Have a good day
Cath xx
Hi Cath, the loo yu mean is a clos-o-mat…my OT advised me to have one but it meant a long wait on the councils adaptation agencys list.
When I decided I couldnt wait the 2yrs, I went for a bank loan and it cost us around 7k to do the new wet room. The extra 3.5k for the all singing all dancing loo coudnt be included.
have you been given a waiting time idea?
luv pollx
Hi Cath
So pleased it has all worked out for you, strange how these things happen, at the time we cant see why, but fate steps in and it works out fine.
Havve a nice time this evening, take care.
Pam x
Hi Poll I have no idea how long it’ll take, my OT suggested it 3 weeks ago, she returned with the man with the information who ensured it would fit etc last week and said she’d sort the grant out this week. No time factor was mentioned but I’m in no rush, I don’t need a wet room as I’m still quite mobile and have a chair that turns over the bath and allows me to sit and shower safely and wash my hair with two hands, bliss!! I wanted to keep the bath as my daughter enjoys using it, she can just lift my chair off. I need the fancy loo as I’m still within my child bearing years and have the personal cleanliness issues that we have to deal with monthly and with my ms and cord damage I’m struggling maintaining my personal hygiene. My bathroom isn’t big enough to accommodate a bidet and my upstairs loo is in my former airing cupboard which is very tight!
Is it notoriously difficult getting them? My OT has been fantastic to date, everything she’s promised has arrived within a couple of weeks and she even phoned me when my bath chair and bed rail arrived and offered to come in and demonstrate safe usage. I’m very lucky and appreciate just how fortunate I am. Is everyone else supported in this way?
Cath xx
Hi again Cath. My OT (plus ones Ive seen before over the 16 years), is a lovley girl. She is very caring and has produced store items quickly for me. But its these bigger, installation type jobs, that have to wait for grants to be given. When I rang the council before I decided not to wait any longer, I was told I was number 161 on the list! I had already waited 9 months! So another 2 yrs was unthinkable!
I can feel sorry for the OTs, as they advise and recommend, but their hands are tied when it comes to the funding of adaptations.
Maybe your area doesnt have such long waiting lists,eh? Hope not.
Unlike you, I havent had periods for 31 years, as I had a hysterectomy aged 30, due to a cervical pre-cancer scare!
I do have to ask for help with bottom cleaning tho! Sorry if this is tmi for some, but we`re all in this mess together and understand each other, eh?
luv Pollx
Oh Poll I’d have gone down the bank loan route too had I been in your situation. Any work on the house is so expensive and I’m rapidly discovering that when your house is 100 years old works seem to escalate from medium to huge. When they took the tiles off in my kitchen all the plaster came off with them and my perfectionist builder had to knock it all off, board and plaster it all again. A 3 day job turned into 2 weeks thanks to the long Easter weekend. And everything’s still looking dusty.
Never mind, I won’t be bored for the next few months! I was incredibly lazy today and went back to bed. Have you ever felt so exhausted that you feel physically sick and drained of all energy? Feel better now though, ready to see the huge coffee table I have to make room for in my very tiny, dusty house.
Enjoy your evening all.
Cath xx