PIP - Those odious checkboxes!

I'm being converted over from DLA to PIP, and so far I have two questions.

First, I'm getting stuck on those daft checkboxes.

For example:
Q3: Do you use aids to cook?
Q3a: Do you need help to cook?
True answer: No, because I'm not able to stand or sit in the kitchen. I'm bedridden. But which checkbox do I tick to make sure they give me the full points I'm entitled to?

Another example:

Q14c Do you use a wheelchair or similar device to move around safely,
reliably and repeatedly and in a reasonable time period?

True answer: I use a wheelchair. My husband pushes it. We move very slowly together because he's disabled too. So not reliably, repeatedly, or in a reasonable time period.

Should I leave the tickboxes blank and just use the text boxes to explain?

Why did they take a difficult process and change it to also be... difficult? (Rhetorical question - I know the answer is austerity.)

Okay, real second question - how do I beg plead or coax them to give me a home assessment? I go out to doctor's appointments, but only when I absolutely have to. It is absolutely shattering to me to go out any distance from home, and the nearest assessment center is 30 miles away.

There were a couple of tick boxes I was unsure on so I just wrote unsure and a short explanation of why a yes/no answer was difficult to make.
Good luck with getting a home assessment. I had letter from MP, cons psych etc I even wrote my own letter. Got called to a F2F 30 miles away. Nonetheless, it is worth a shot trying.

Not only did I NOT get a home assessment, I was given an assessment on the same day I already had a medical appointment scheduled, which I notified them about on the questionnaire. When I called to complain, I was told that if I could make it to medical appointments, I can make it to see Atos, never mind that one is two streets away and the other is a 30 mile round trip. Never mind that one is something I do for my health and the other is something the government makes me do.

After I got nowhere with that (seriously, the guy was like a robot - he will go far with Atos!) I changed the date. He then tells me that having changed the date once, I'm not allowed to change the date again or it will go back to DWP. So I'm not allowed to get a gallbladder attack or a blinding migraine or an ME/CFS flare or anything like that. I argued with him that why should that be the case when it was Atos's fault that the first date was no good? I told them, after all! He said that since the first date was generated automatically without looking at the form, that claimants were given one chance to reset the date, but that was all. I told him that it was cruel.

I ask him about disabled parking at the location where he's assigned me. He doesn't have that information. I suggest that perhaps that is information that Atos call center people should have, given that their 'customers' are the sick and disabled. (I know he's just a functionary and has no power over any of this - I just want it on the record. I was clearly angry, but under control, the entire time.)

Finally at the end, I ask him to put on my record that I'm accepting this assessment appointment under protest. If this goes to tribunal, I do not want it said that I must have been fine going out and about since I took the appointment.

The whole conversation was on speaker phone, and I recorded it with my mobile. So at least I have that.

And just to make the weekend complete, we got the brown envelope for my husband, moving him from DLA to PIP. We thought we had another 6 months for that. So just a lovely DWPAtosian weekend all around.