Miss C's bathtub woes

Miss C is down and depressed and still has bathtub issues. I went to the plumbing supply in Chinatown and they rigged me up with some black rubber hosing and a little pressure ring you tighten with a screw driver. I have been able to take a bath by hooking the hose up to the bathroom sink and filling up the bath from there. Works great. better than the bathtub faucet was working before it totally conked out. When I first bought my little house it had no heater. This was a problem because I was taking care of my dying mom and it was the beginning of January. You could have stored meat in my living room. You could see your breath. The house has an old fuse box and I got an expensive space heater to keep my mom warm at night and the heater melted the fuse. Bad news. After she died I read about a program in my city where they give rehab loans to low income residents of historical properties. So I applied and the loan was 3%. Unbeatable! The woman in charge of the program could not be any cooler. So I got a heater and a grounded plug in the bathroom and a stove vent, an attic vent and more kitchen cabinets and pretty French windows (because I had to have an historian out to look at the place before they could work on it, and he recommended the original style windows.) I needed new porch posts as the original ones were rotted. I just paid off that loan in April and the plumbing goes out. I called this week and they offered me the same terms. Now they do a lot of weird stuff on their own, the porch posts are made from the pressure treated wood that looks like it's been stapled a million times, very ugly, and they have told me that my tub surround is not up to code. I have an old fashioned style bathroom and I like it that way. I am afraid that they will stick some ugly hotel looking glass shower cubicle in. God I hope not. Anyway, I guess it's better to have running water, than not. Beggers can't be choosers.