Can you believe it, Mark has been home six weeks, just don't know where the time has gone. We set off early Thursday morning for his six week checkup at Pinderfields. He had a long list of things to tell the Consultant, particularly the problems with spasms and continuing pain. He had hopes they would have some answers, I have little faith in anything they say now. Mark spent time describing the spasms and pain in detail giving them as much information as possible to allow them to work out what could be the problem. Consultants answer - we have no idea why your spasms and pain are getting worse, all we can suggest is take more drugs. I suppose because I had little faith that they would actually have any answers I wasn't that surprised. Mark was frustrated, but I think also not that surprised. They have booked him in for another CT scan but are not expecting it to show anything new. So now his drug count has increased and could increase considerably before we see any, or no, results. I have explained to the Consultant, that Mark has to go back out to work and he can't in his current state so we have a problem - not sure the Consultant is taking me seriously enough, he still hasn't tuned into my sense of humour.
We had a mammoth (as in big not the animal) curry lunch with Deb and Jez (friends from Lefkas) on Tuesday, it was great to catch up even though we couldn't actually go out with them. After lunch we went for a walk down through the woods and Jez did his best to catapult Mark out of his chair on the rough ground. I'm sure Mark was heavier after that huge lunch, pushing him back up the hill took the efforts of Deb and I together!! If we don't get back to Lefkas it will be a year before we see them again, life will have changed considerably by then.
Much time is now spent trawling the internet for houses, the criteria is a lot different than if we were looking as 2 able bodied. Considering access to the property, turning space and room sizes needed for wheelchair space rules out many in our budget, the search includes all sorts of buildings that could be made a home, any ideas from you lot out there welcome!!
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Mark & Mo, It's worth looking a park homes, if you get a bit of land and put services and a base on it you can get a fully furnished including all white goods, one for £60,000 or less. The planning permission for park homes is easier that conventional buildings and they will build wheelchair sized doors and access' into it from the start. Don't look for sited ones as they are much more expensive with annual charges on top search for the manufacturers. I can send you a few web links if you like.
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