To quote Baldrick: ”I have a cunning plan..."
It has been almost 7 weeks since I was able to get down the stairs for to open the front door in
order to get the food delivery in. By that time I was becoming really desperate not only had I completely depleted the contents of my emergency food cupboard but I was also running out of household essentials.
I had already experimented with getting my prescription in. One of my kitchen windows is over the main front door so I opened the window and lowered a bag down on a string to get my prescription in. It made the guy who delivered it laugh as he’d never had to do anything like that before.
It then got me thinking could I perhaps if I planned things carefully do similar with food especially bearing in mind there’s a minimum order of £40.
Well I won’t be able to do it with a bag on a piece of string as the string wouldn’t be strong enough, a few packets of tablets weighs next to nothing compared with what a shop would weigh.
So on the very day that 7 weeks had passed since I was able to get downstairs I managed to get a delivery via Sainsbury’s chop chop app, unfortunately I was still using the bag lowered on a piece of string and the string through the handles pulled tight making it difficult to open the bag and the guy was not particularly amused but nevertheless he complied and I managed to get some food in for the Easter weekend.
A few months into the pandemic my housing association had asked if there was anything they could do to help bye then I was already struggling trying to get up and down the stairs with food so I seriously suggested the following put a block and tackle outside my kitchen window so I could get the shopping in without having to go down the stairs they laughed and then ignored me.
Anyway I have ordered a rope and some carabiner clips, it won’t be as easy as if it was on a pulley but I’ll have a damn good try. It means choosing shopping carefully so there aren’t too many heavy items in one shop.
As I said to the lady at the Samaritans when I have a grocery delivery I have to go up & down stairs for that one delivery the equivalent of me going out every day for more than a week. Now if I don’t have to keep going up & down stairs to get grocery deliveries once I’m able to manage the stairs I can go out to get some fresh air rather than simply going up & down to get groceries in.
Plus having to go up & down stairs for the groceries on the occasions that I’m able I have to rest for 2 days beforehand & then it takes me 3 or 4 days to recuperate which virtually takes up the whole week leaving me unable to do anything else including chores in the flat or cooking.
I will update you as to how I manage.
