An amputee claims that the lack of council adaptations at his home means he has not been able to have a proper shower or a bath for over a year.
Tony Love, from Paisley, has been confined to a wheelchair since his right leg was amputated above the knee in April last year.
The 61-year-old says he was left marooned in his former home in the town’s Mossvale Square after he left hospital.
Despite being handed the keys to a new sheltered housing flat in the town’s Springbank Road in March this year, Tony says is still without adequate facilities.
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He claims this is due to Renfrewshire Council failing to carry out necessary adaptations to his home, the Paisley Daily Express reports.
He said: “When I came out of hospital I lived in Mossvale Square, but I was up 26 stairs. I couldn’t get out of the house there. There was a six inch step to get in the house after I had got to the top landing.
“There was only a kitchen and living room available on the ground floor, so I basically slept, ate and did everything in the one room. I slept on a three-seater settee, I bought a Portaloo.”
Tony, who managed pubs for 30 years, thought his situation would improve when he accepted the offer of a new home in Springbank Road earlier this year.
But he claims a failure to carry out necessary adaptations to his new home has sent him into further despair.
He said: “The bathroom was supposed to be turned into a wetroom and alterations were to be done to the kitchen.
“The units are too high for a wheelchair user and I can make it to the bathroom sink, but I can’t get the wheelchair in properly because it gets stuck on the shower tray.”
Instead, Tony is being washed by carers at his bathroom sink. “That’s four and a half months now and there hasn’t even been a screw put in," he added.
“They won’t put a cooker in until the kitchen has been redone, so I have a microwave and the units are too high. I’m living on ready meals or tinned stuff and to get a proper meal I have to get a takeaway.
“That’s not ideal to be doing when there’s a cost of living crisis and I’m diabetic, so it’s not what I should be doing.”
And he says he has been left 'drained' by the issues he has faced with his new home.
He added: “I have not been able to have a proper shower or a bath since I left hospital In April last year. There has been sufficient time to adapt this place.
“I was in hospital recently to have an angioplasty at the top of my leg to widen the only artery I have. I’ve not got a shower to wash that wound. Mentally, I’m drained by it. I’m 61 not 90, I still have a chance at life.”
Renfrewshire Council has been contacted for comment.
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