blueoctober, I'm getting my carpets steam cleaned. I wanted to pay a professioanl cleaner to do the hoiuse I am in but she was awy too expeosive for me. It a ratty old house so is very hard to clean, but I will clean it - on those days when I am well. I also alsl always get the lawns mowed and will get that done before I go.

As to the new place I have a Converyancer, which is like a lawyer who manages all the sale transactions and other details around the sale. I also paid a Buildung inspector to go over the property and make a report. I have engaged a plumber to quote on doig some major work that will need to be done after Settement Day but before I move in - otherwise I won't have hot water, and I will also have guttering that floods th garage when it rains. But the plumber is bloody hopeless - classic plumber - he won't get his act together to quote on that so I can plan for the job to be done the day after Settlement - he lied to me last week when he said he was going to do the quotes then because he had lost the housekeys at the time. It may end up I have to let him go and start again with a new plumber but so much time has been lost. And i have had quotes to have the dirty carpet taken up and the floos done as well as a quote for painting the place out. But I can't commit to those things or book dates for them until the plumber does his quotes - Catch22!

Thanks farmgirl. My psychiatrist has banged into me that SJS is so dangerous so I am pretty uptight when I get a rash. But the bad thig is that I start going down the line of suicidal thinking because I like everyone else I have been a guineau pig and taken years to get the right meds. Because of was in a long, serious and dangerous Bipolar Depression last year, my doctor added Lamictal and for me, and for many others I read on the Net, iy has been a miracle, it has mean that I have a much more viable life - even if i have to stay on the pension etc. So as soon as I see a rash I think he's going to have to take me off Lamictal, my mental state will deteriorate and i will want to die. I have told my psych and my therapist many times that I am not prepared to live like that in the long term. Yes, I know this is catatrophising, but having had mental illness from a young age and all the deep human suffering that entails mean I am simply OVER being that sick. But yes, now I must pray that whatever happens there will be ways to address things.