An Edinburgh woman says she feels trapped in her own home as she desperately waits for a new council house.Laura Wilson is unable to get down the stairs without help after her health deteriorated rapidly since her diagnosis with fixed dystonia, and Functional Neurologic Disorders (FND) in June 2021.
The 34-year-old's condition affects her right leg, and speech, and had already started spreading to her left side months after being diagnosed.While she lives in a ground-floor council flat in Penicuik, there are four large steps to the front door that she is unable get-up or down in her chair without help from her family who live nearby, reports Edinburgh Live.Laura, who relies on a wheelchair, is now desperate for Midlothian Council to find her a 'more suitable' home.
She said: "Since November I've been getting in contact with the council and it's just so difficult. "They don't reply or they take so long to get back to me.
I was trying to phone, I wasn't getting answered. It was so frustrating. "My tenancy support officer visits and she's witnessed first-hand how my health has declined and how unsuitable this property is."I just feel like having a house that you can live in but have the ability to come and go as you please safely - I don't think that's too much to ask.
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