As a righty, I can’t imagine pulling together a plate that appealing using just my left. I’ve spent thanksgiving as a hospital patient and only wished I had your dinner.
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In my opinion, that is no pitiful repast, looks kinda perfect.
I had perfect mashed potatoes (thanks to the tamis) wonderful bourbon-orange cranberry sauce, cloud like whipped cream for Costco pumpkin pie, + lots of Indian take out brought by a guest. Unconventional but just fine.
I’ll tackle a turkey etc for Christmas dinner.
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Been there, though not for Thanksgiving. I think I lived on cottage cheese and fruit cups. The rest was not fit for human consumption- and I’m not picky when it comes to eat-to-live.
I’m lucky - I’m kind of ambidextrous.
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Seeing the PT soon. I’ve been doing my exercises like a good girl!
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The wine. It was the wine.
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Once when I was in the hospital (knee replacement then stayed longer because of a blood clot in lung) all I found edible on their menu was cantaloupe, that’s all I ate, day after day!
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Same. Five exercises (so far), two sets of ten.
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One exercise, 3 sets of ten. Yellow band.
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This PT is delighted people actually do their exercises!
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I have not had a dish washer for many, many years. I like washing dishes, I find it very therapeutic.
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We have a dishwasher and almost never use it—it’s here just for sit-down dinner parties of six or more, of which we might have 4-5 a year. It seems crazy to run the dishwasher with dishes for only two people in it, and we don’t have enough pots/utensils to be able to just let the extras languish in the dishwasher for days on end until we eat enough to fill it up with plates!
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I thought about you today - we went to a small family grocer to buy a few things and there was a whole duck in the meat case. My husband commented on it and I knew I could come back to this conversation you had with other people on HO to find out how to cook it, but the damn thing was over $45 and we passed on that. Your meal looks delicious.
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Not ready for any bands yet, but soon, I hope!
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My favorite aunt had a DW that broke down. She entertained frequently and while everyone was standing around with after dinner drinks, she made a show of rinsing off the dirty dishes and putting them in the DW. After everyone left she washed them by hand. She’s long now and I don’t think she’d mind me telling this story.
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I hope you can regain function in your shoulder with PT and avoid surgery. I had a complete tear of my rotator cuff on my dominant right arm and had surgery. It was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced, 4 months of post-op PT , an ice machine and months of powerful/addictive painkillers. I actually I ended up in the ER in withdrawal from the pain meds.
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I hope it’s not a rotator cuff issue, although I understand that a large percentage of cough people over a certain age have tears. I didn’ t do anything to injure it. PT thinks it’s tendonitis in the tendon that goes from the bicep to the shoulder. I really really don’t want surgery …
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Cough cough - I’m hoping the best for you. PT’s are awesome - they train at a doctoral level and they really know their shit (pardon my French, as they say).
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This sounds like a wonderful holiday meal, especially getting the wine bottle open! Hope you heal quickly!
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I have sets of 10 when it comes to silverware and plates/bowls/coffee mugs/glassware, so I’m good there. No pots or pans go in my dishwasher, so WHEN I have a working dishwasher it gets used maybe twice a week during regular cooking. I have a galley kichen (open to dining room and living room on both sides), so there’s not a lot of counter space to begin with, and having a dishrack on the counter has severely hampered my cooking space.
I’ll be glad to get a new DW.
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