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belleAUSSydney
belleAUSSydney

Landlord (who lives on the property) is in some kind of mood today and has just complained that my front curtains aren't "white enough". Getting them down involves getting onto a ladder multiple times to unhook them. Has anyone tried a ladder 9 weeks post-op?

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  • renee01952
    renee01952 belleAUSSydney

    Posted

    Dear Belle, 

    I commend you for taking responsibility and being responsible - It seems silly to complain about curtains , and i think you are right - nothing personal, he is projecting his feelings of being powerless on the rental unit -

    Make sure that you have help hanging them back up - is even more daunting than taking them off ....

    How are you doing other wise? Have you fully recoverd from your previous fall???

    be safe, darling

    big warm hug

    renee

    • belleAUSSydney
      belleAUSSydney renee01952

      Posted

      Thanks Renee

      I think the fall was okay. It hurt for a week, but I'm back to the "usual" hurt now. Have my x-ray on the 19th so will find out then. I had been putting a pillow on my computer chair and I pushed the chair back one night, cushion slid off and I slid off with it. I am 9 weeks post-op and had expected to be walking without two crutches by now, but haven't dared to go to physio since falling (I want the x-ray first), so my muscles aren't doing too well. I can still get around.

      My daughter will be home tomorrow. Neither of us is looking forward to rehanging the curtains. So many hooks. It is much easier to take them down that to rehang them...

  • Rocketman_SG6UK
    Rocketman_SG6UK belleAUSSydney

    Posted

    Ye, but just 3 steps - and I was VERY careful - had my wife with me at all times.

    As Lyn says, "dear Landlord, can you help me get them down so I can wash them as I cannot possibly do it at the moment."

    Oh I see, getting them down is solved, all you have to do is get him to put them back up now., or perhaps not, if there are none there, they can't be dirty can they twisted

    Graham

    • belleAUSSydney
      belleAUSSydney Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      They're still hanging up drying. Tomorrow, we have to put back the hooks and then hook each one onto the individual thingees. Groan... They weren't dirty, but they were dusty. Glad they're done, but not looking forward to putting them up tomorrow...
    • AnnieK
      AnnieK belleAUSSydney

      Posted

      Belle, you should not be hanging them up. Surely you can enlist someone else to help your daughter do it, someone who is able-bodied. You are taking a huge risk if you try. The health and integrity of your body is far more important than hanging curtains. I am worried for you.
  • amanda1827h
    amanda1827h belleAUSSydney

    Posted

    Look dont even go there please. Explain to your Landlord that your unable to climb a Ladder !! Be careful. 9 weeks is too early. ASK for Help regards Amanda
  • milliejean
    milliejean belleAUSSydney

    Posted

    Tell him you changed them and you prefer the 'grey' or 'yellowish' or whatever colour he thinks they are wink​. I used to change my curtains twice a year before my hip op but now ....who cares....(mind we do own our property!) but I have a friend who has never taken hers down, she hoovers them! Watch that hip! wink
  • belleAUSSydney
    belleAUSSydney

    Posted

    Curtains are washed and dried, but we haven't put them back up yet. My daughter is not working on Wednesday so we'll have a go then.

    I had the idea to bring our small breakfast table from the kitchen and put it near the windows. It's a four-seater rectangular one and much larger than any of the surfaces we have in the front room. We (one of us) can use a chair to get up on that, put another chair on the tabletop (I have non-slip matting I can put down under the legs) and get the curtains up fairly easily. Both daughter and myself are too short to do it even at the top of the ladder and very tall son-in-law (other daughter's husband) isn't available to help due to work.

    We've had the front blinds down ever since we took the curtains down. Landlord hasn't said a thing...

    • AnnieK
      AnnieK belleAUSSydney

      Posted

      belle, please don't climb up there to put them up. Can't very-tall-son-in-law come over after work? Presumably he doesn't work 24 hours a day. This is NOT the time for you to try to balance on top of a table. 
    • belleAUSSydney
      belleAUSSydney AnnieK

      Posted

      After work would get him here around midnight. No thanks... Hoping to get my daughter to do the table balancing, not me...
    • AnnieK
      AnnieK belleAUSSydney

      Posted

      Midnight is too late. Well, as long as it's not you! Good luck.
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