After devastating diagnoses: the seriously ill is given notice of the apartment - now he is threatened with homelessness
Created: 01/04/2022, 12:02 PM
By: Andreas Steppan
The Walchensee enchants with its agricultural beauty.
However, living there in the remoteness can also be associated with practical challenges - especially if you are sick and do not have a car, like Eberhard K. (name changed).
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Despite a series of difficult diagnoses: Eberhard K. (60) from Walchensee was fighting for his health.
But then the resignation robbed him of the strength.
Walchensee
- "I had a good life until my accident," says Eberhard K. (name changed).
The now 60-year-old practiced his profession as a cook with a lot of joy and vigor.
“I earned well, and if it got later, I didn't mind,” he says.
In his residential area in an apartment on Lake Walchensee, he was able to enjoy the natural beauty.
Suddenly, however, the health no longer cooperated, one devastating diagnosis followed the next.
In the midst of the struggle for an independent life, the notice of termination pulled the floor from under his feet.
Walchensee: When Eberhard K. breaks his hip, his ordeal begins
The medical problems began for Eberhard K. in 2016, as he reports in an interview with the Tölzer Kurier.
“I broke my left hip while renovating,” he says.
After surgery, hospitalization and rehab, he returned to work - but only for exactly one day.
"Then I couldn't walk again." K. had to be operated on a second time.
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When the doctors checked him over during his hospital stays, they diagnosed alarming blood values.
The doctors found that K. suffers from type 2 diabetes. He is now feeling the effects of the disease.
"I have nerve damage in both feet and I have no more feeling in them," he says.
"It is popularly known as a diabetic foot."
Devastating diagnoses: The doctor also diagnoses Parkinson's in a man
In the meantime, the numbness reaches up to the lower leg.
Because Eberhard K. also suffered from severe pain, he was examined further.
Computed tomography revealed a herniated disc and that "both shoulder joints are totally worn out," as he says.
“I can't lift my arms above my head.” As if that weren't enough, the neurologist also diagnosed the early stages of Parkinson's disease.
Despite all the setbacks, K. took up the fight, kept his positive manner as best he could. The adversities, however, are considerable.
Because as beautiful as it is in Walchensee, everyday life there can bring about so many practical problems, especially when you're sick and don't have a car.
To buy groceries, to go to the doctor or to get the urgently needed medication from the pharmacy, K. has to take long trips by bus, either to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Kochel or Krün.
This not only costs time and effort, it also costs money.
He has to shell out EUR 10.60 for a day ticket alone, which he can use to go to the supermarket in Garmisch and back.
That is an amount that matters to K.
Because since he can no longer work, he has slipped into Hartz IV.
The upcoming change to the disability pension will not bring him any improvement financially.
"I've learned to get by with the money with an iron discipline," he says.
Walchensee: termination of the apartment throws the seriously ill off the rails
Due to the large number of additional medication payments and the expenses for public transport, he still often doesn't know how to get through the month.
Topping up the credit for your mobile phone is just one of many challenges.
“And I can't go to the Kochel dinner table.
There is no bus going there during the delivery times. "
But what really threw K. off course, in his own words, was the notice of resignation.
Since then he has written 50 letters to municipalities, housing associations and homeowners.
All by hand, which is increasingly difficult for him.
K. would like an electric typewriter.
But something like that can hardly be found today, and if so, then at prices that are unaffordable for K.
Man in the Oberland looking for an apartment - "Everything I did went wrong"
“Everything I've done has gone wrong,” he says today, dejected.
In the social welfare office, he has the highest priority as a person entitled to social housing.
But: There is simply nothing to be had in the entire region.
"Sometimes I wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and ask myself: under which bridge will you sleep?" Says K. The uncertainty robs him more and more of the strength to fight for his health.
“Actually, I was on the right track,” he says.
"But the last time my doctor was no longer satisfied."
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