Carrie 1 now lives in a "soulless" apartment building but realizes that it is better suited to her current needs.

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I really wanted to live in a big, beautiful brick apartment building like I was used to living in. And now I live in a soulless, 15 storey apartment building. But the reason I picked it is because it has all the adaptations I need. It has heated parking garage; I don’t have to scrape my car off. It has wheelchair accessibility. It has elevators. It has a pool where I can take my kid to exercise. I could just sit in the pool while she swims around. Because they’re all things that – and it’s completely soulless. This is one of those random, 15 storey apartment blocks that look like any other, no charm whatsoever. But it’s what I need and actually, it’s wonderful. I actually have a ton of sunlight, I’m house bound now. But I live in a place that I can use my wheelchair. There’s a ton of sunlight that comes in through my two patio doors in my living room. I have a ginormous balcony. Since I can’t leave my house, I enjoy balcony gardening. So these are all things that I – because I knew I probably wouldn’t get better. And I accepted that I might even get worse, I picked an apartment that I can now stay in, as opposed to, if I didn’t know, I might just pick a third-floor walk-up. And then what would I do if I can’t do stairs?

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