Breaking for lunch

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Our bed is still covered with yarn but I need to rest for a while. I also have more sympathy for the folks on the various hoarding shows who get tired after what seems to the viewer (read, me) a ridiculously short amount of time. I'm exhausted and I'm no where near done. Also, unless you lived here, you wouldn't be able to tell anything has changed. Unnerving, that.

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[ahavia.livejournal.com]

I live at Stapeley in Germantown, a continuing care facility. I live in a 1 bedroom independent living apartment. At the end of the hall there is a laundry room and a door to our security storage space. We all have a storage unit with our own locks. So as of this morning, all the winter linen that I am going to put in the unit is bagged up and in my folding cart. I will get on my scooter and tool down the hall and put this stuff in my storage unit. And have my living space a bit neater.

[ahavia.livejournal.com]

Winter lines are now in the storage unit. Good ME!
Last Aug. I was in the hospital with congestive heart failure. I came home scared. I could no longer live alone. At 63. I hired help to get me thru the day and started working on moving to this Quaker facility. I also hired a company, Here to Home, which helps seniors do what I needed to do, downsize and set up my new home. While I layed in bed, this wonderful woman emptied my closets so I could decide what I would keep and what would be given to a agency that was helping women get off of welfare. And then the same was done to my books and doll collections, etc. I went from a 1380 sq. ft. 2 bedroom apartment to a 660 sq ft. 1 bedroom place. Much was given away to places I felt very good about. And the rest was boxed up, the moving company moved me 4 mo. later and Here to Home set me up here so I am surrounded by things I love and am very comfortable. Yes, it cost money to get that much help but it was worth it. I could not do all this on my own.
If I really can not do something on my own, I ask for help. And so far, have gotten the help I need.
I feel blessed. Ahavia