@kjoed53 I agree with you 100%. Nothing like a detached bungalow! The only reason we are still in our house (back split, with just four steps up to the bedrooms and one bathroom) is because like you, I am reluctant to go into a condo but I am afraid we just may have to do that because where we live, in Canada, only the high end homes have an extra bathroom on the main floor, never mind an ensuite. The second washroom invariably is on the lower (basement, in the case of any bungalow style home) floor. This leaves us with no choice but to get a condo if our mobility needs change for the worse.

Yes, I was told by the doctor that this cortisone injection ($60 for the one shot) would have just a short span of pain relief but the alternative ($500 for one hyaluronic acid injection) just wasn’t affordable for me, and there was no guarantee that one would last either, albeit much longer than the cortisone would.