At 09:46 24-01-01 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> > At least I can still move around without pain or back ache. And that
> > is really amazing considering the bulge on the front. But how do I get
> > around shopping and simple household things that require an anormous
> > amount of lifting and shifting stuff that can be rather havy? So where
> > theory might be easy its a bugger to put it into practice all the
> > time. And being also very impatient by nature doesn't really help.
>
>I'm a lot more impatient than I used to be, so being very impatient by
>nature must mean you're INCREDIBLY impatient now, or at least that's my
>extrapolation. Shopping is getting just a little harder each week. I
>might have to tell Dan that he has to buy the cans of soda for the rest of
>the pregnancy sometime soon. (That's the worst as far as being heavy and
>awkward to lift in and out of the cart. That and the 10-lb boxes of
>baking soda we buy to use for cleaning purposes, but I can send him out
>for those, as well, and I don't think it'll be an issue for a couple
>more months, considering our current supply.)
>
>My biggest problem while shopping is that they put things that I want up
>on high shelves. One of these days, I'm going to have to leave the cart
>in the middle of an aisle and go up to the customer service desk and ask
>for a store employee to help me, if a tall person doesn't come along soon
>enough. (Or maybe create enough of a scene to get a store employee there,
>but that might not go over so well. Passively blocking the aisle might
>work....)
>
> Julia
If the object you want is not too heavy, you could get one of those
long-arm-claw-things (anyone know the real name?) that arthritis patients
who can't bend over use. Be sure to get a good one: some of the cheaper
ones will bend on you.
-- Ronn! :)
