I finally got my request for reasonable accommodation approved and now I'm moving to my 4th apartment in the same complex. I'm glad I'm getting out of this basement apartment finally as I know it's been making me feel worse and I think it's making my cats sick as well. I know there must be mold in here as you can't escape it in a damp environment and this apartment certainly is damp.
I originally moved into a second floor apartment with a deck and when climbing stairs became dangerous for me (after falling down them more than once) and waiting over a year I was moved to a first floor apartment. It was smaller that the second floor one and I had to get rid of a piece of furniture from the living room in order to move in there. The building ended up getting an ice dam 2 months after I moved in and I ended up with water damage which was never fixed. I lived there for another year and a half before I got my section 8 to move into a 2 bedroom apartment so my oldest son could finally have his own room. I moved into my third apartment in the middle of August a year ago but from day one it's been bad. The AC doesn't work well, the kitchen fan doesn't work the way it should and the bathroom is so tiny you have to open the door to change your mind. I'm always banging into the wall when I sit on the toilet and I'm not that big yet. Even the kids say they bang the wall when using the toilet.
So now I am moving again in February. Well for the first of the month. I hope I get the keys early so I can start moving stuff in and only have to get people to move the big stuff. The bedrooms are about the same size as the ones I have now but I have an absolutely HUGE walk in closet in the master bedroom and a bathroom you can put at least 10 people in. Oh yeah did I mention it has a deck AND it faces the south so I get sun ALL day long EVERY day. Not just for a month in the late afternoon for about a month. My SAD is going into remission when I move over there. I can't wait to sit in the window and soak up the sun.
I am going to miss a few things about this apartment. My upstairs neighbor is one. We both like the fact that I'm here. I can run (well climb slowly) up the stairs to help him when he need me and I get the pleasure of seeing him every day. He's such a sweet man. He's in that wheel chair for life and can always use any help that he can get. I'm not moving so far away that he can't still call me and I'll come running. No matter what time he calls me, day or night, I'll be there for him. He told me that he likes to sit outside where I'm moving to so we will still see each other. He sits on the walkway outside the apartment I'm moving into to sun himself so we will still see each other every day.
So I sit here counting down the days till I move hoping that we don't get a lot of snow or ice. I will see if I have the money to rent a truck that day to make things easier for who ever has the good (bad) luck to help me move. I can't wait till that day.
