Uuuupdates

[kaberett]

(1) I am a bit groggy and out of it post Minor Medical Procedure for Mystery Menstrual Symptoms; A was v good about shunting me around the hospital when I was too sore to particularly want to push myself/bringing me things/etc. Everything looked healthy; I was a Model Patient; biopsy results are unlikely to show anything concerning, so ??????????

(2) House viewing this morning was VERY CONFUSING. It has a garden! That contains a well-tended hydrangea, and rose bushes, and fruiting apple and plum and probably-cherry (there's definitely a cherry, I'm just not sure whether it's ornamental), and maybe a crabapple, and a vegetable patch, and a patio. And a nice kitchen. And the conservatory would be dining room/games room/music room and would be lovely esp. in the rain. So now I'm just trying to convince us (... myself) that we'd actually be able to fit the furniture into it, which is currently proving Difficult; I am intending to ask to have another viewing and actually take a tape measure this time. (Wider wheelchair just about fits in the front door. It's rampable. I should be able to get a powerchair in. There's an airing cupboard for letting dough rise in. Etc etc etc...)

Comments

[recessional]

...so if the wheelchair fits and it's rampable, which iirc your current place is NOT, and is otherwise amenable in terms of cost/etc?

Furniture is replaceable. :P Or can be stuck in storage or whatever. Level-entry wheel-chair-works plus the rest of the lovely stuff represents such a huge quality-of-life issue it would just be really sad (again assuming it's amenable for monies etc) if brain got stuck on "but my COUCH won't fit!" or whatever. It is way easier to replace furniture than it is to find amenable house-shapes.

[davidgillon]

This is a damn good point!

[kaberett]

Ha, so, the furniture that it's an issue to fit in is actually mostly A's, with sentimental value -- and given that he's already moved house once in the last year for my comfort and convenience, I don't want to lean on his patience too hard :-p

But: yeah.

(Wheelchairs PROBABLY fit -- it's not clear how easy it would be to get a fully powered chair in until I've... got a fully powered chair to hand, but "measuring the doorway" is an option. Manual chairs definitely do fit.)

But yeah, have e-mailed the letting agent to ask for another viewing (so I can take a tape measure) and also a sense of what the energy rating for the property is...

[davidgillon]

Suggestion on powered wheechair fit. Find the footprint of something typical, ideally one of the 6-wheeled types, and cut out a bit of cardboard to size. If you can drop it on the floor and rotate it around corners you're probably okay.

[recessional]

Oooer, that is clever! *files that away*

[kaberett]

ACTUALLY it occurs to me that the thing to do might be to find out what models the local Shopmobility has, how they match up with what I might get, and then show up to next viewing with one...

[davidgillon]

Even better idea!

[kaberett]

OH RIGHT AND -- there's no urgency to the move (yet) so we could just keep looking -- we're basically looking speculatively at the market to see if there's anything that would be Better For Me for recovery from top surgery, for which I don't yet have a date though it's likely to be in the next year, so we could... just keep looking?

(but this house is Kind Of Lovely and also on a quiet side-street and right next door to the park and closer to A's work and the shops and I'd be able to make apple-and-plum crumble from the garden and probably plant up some raspberry canes...!)

[recessional]

Well, yeah. But I mean I know that housing in London is as bad as housing here? And even worse in terms of making for accessibility stuff? Sooooo. I feel like “the wheelchair can move around in this house, and this house EXISTS, and is within price-range/etc” makes for Very Heavy on the scales. Like, very heavy. And I want to say it aloud and pretty firmly due to my knowledge of YOUR brain’s tendency to . . . mis-weight things to do with your life quality simply because it is YOUR life-quality (only to have that potentially build up over time and go snap because it turns out humans have limits <3) and you shouldn’t be (according to your jerkbrain) weighting it much at all.

And how sneaky jerkbrains can be about that especially when you’ve recently kicked them into accepting SOME kind of “no I need to do thing for my life quality”. So.

Which makes bird-in-the-hand-worth-two-in-the-bush applicable. And closer to work/etc is also a HUGE gain, and furniture can go into storage/see if someone else can store it for you instead of Gotten Rid Of Completely if there is sentimental attachment to that extent? So yeah.

(like obvs I am not the boss of you and you are the one with all the details. I just wanted to pull out some Things and Aspects that I feel deserve hard contemplation. <3)

[davidgillon]

What wise Recessional says.

[kaberett]

The news, from having arranged to go back with a tapemeasure, is that The Furniture Fits.

... so now we're just waiting on the energy efficiency certificate and finding out how flexible our current landlady is ACTUALLY willing to be...

But yes thank you. <3

[recessional]

\o/

[vass]

*crosses fingers*

[davidgillon]

Gentle {hugs} for being probed and snipped at. Hope everything heals to normal levels soon.

And houses with gardens!?!?

[kaberett]

it is SO EXCITING.

[alexseanchai]

1) sympathy, and also that sounds good overall

2) oooo sounds like a fantastic place. hope the furniture fits :)

[kaberett]

(1) now basically fine again hurrah!

(2) IT LOOKS LIKE IT DOES

[alexseanchai]

WOOOOO

[mathemagicalschema]

That sounds like an amazing house, in general and for you in particular, and I would like to echo recessional's reasons for encouraging you to get it unless you turn up a dealbreaker of some sort.

May the medical whatsits be as manageable and hassle-free as possible <3

[kaberett]

I went back today with a tape measure and I think the furniture fits.

Recovery from medical whatsits now pretty much complete, short-term, as far as I can tell, which means I have a Glorious Month Off. <3

[mathemagicalschema]

HELL YES \o/ fingers and toes crossed for you <333

[alexwlchan]

1. Sympathies, and hope the grogginess and associated problems go away soon.

2. I am probably due a trip to $Area soon (it's less inconvenient than a lot of central London for me), so shout if you want an extra pair of hands if/when you end up moving.

[kaberett]

<3 moving is likely to be happening around the first week of September, but I thi-i-ink we're looking okay for hands-on-deck for that. Will definitely invite you to the housewarming, though, assuming we get around to one this time! :-)

[sfred]

Good luck with the decision-making and everything.

[kaberett]

Thank you! It looks like furniture WILL fit so now it's a matter of energy efficiency and notice periods...

[silveradept]

This sounds like it's going to be a good match and fit. I'm very happy.

[cesy]

Yay, that house sounds amazing!

[chiasmata]

House oh my!

[the_quorum]

I swear we replied to this already so I'm really confused/off balance. :S But I'm glad that surgery stuff went well/everything seems to indicate well. And I'm really glad you found an accessible house- That seems to be an incredibly rare find.