Hi Kathleen,
Glad that for the most part you truly enjoyed your birthday! Hope you really
celebrate it and stretch it out for awhile when you can celebrate. At least you
can get out without having to use a wheel chair or having to call Paratransit to
get you out. Be very thankful you can take busses!!
Glad your ham class is going well, and that would really be nice if you got to
work with Alexa. A friend of mine in Cleveland just got an I-phone and
apparently has somehow gotten Alexa for her apartment. She is almost totally
blind, deaf in one ear and has multiple sclerosis, so bless her, she needs all
of the help she can get!! I gather Alexa can turn down the sound of your TV or
radio for you. I don't know what else it can do but am very curious about it.
When my brother and sister-in-law get settled here, I may ask them to help me
investigate how it works and what the learning curve is.
I sure don't blame you for hoping and praying you can get through the next three
months of the construction mayham you've been experiencing!! No, if the
apartment across from mine was getting reconstructed, I wouldn't like it either,
and I still say all of you tenants should have been consulted beforehand about
changes that were being made to your complex! Granted, I know money issues take
precedent, but you could have been asked.
I would get onto your landline phone, call Best Buy and the other stores and ask
to be connected to the department which sells microwaves. Usually you can get a
microwave for around $100.00, and you'd certainly want to ask about delivery,
whether or not a store can deliver. I suspect the local store would be more apt
to deliver than a chain store like Best Buy, but again, I could be wrong. Hope
this helps. Hope you're able to get a microwave soon.
I'm really glad your friend at least could come and help you with mail and with
getting your dresser drawers straightened out. Oh yes, I've had problems with a
desk drawer and a bathroom drawer or two not being in the slots on the sides
properly, and sometimes I've been able to get them straightened out on my own
whereas sometimes I haven't been able to do that. Your poor friend's wife. I
can understand why the brailler could not be something he could handle right
now. I sure hope you can get the strength on a nice day to go the distance
between your apartment and the UPS store with it. That would probably be your
best bet, unless your friends with a totally blind person that could help you
and who knows the way to the store. I sure would if I could, Kathleen, and I
can't believe you either don't know more people in your complex who can help you
or that there aren't some pretty independent people in your complex who could
help you!
Good luck with everything!
Linda G.
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