For everyone, really, starting with just being born, life is all about change and growing in our skills at adapting to changes so we keep on keeping on and make changes of our own. And as someone very wise said at this group not too long ago, there is no such thing really as "normal" but only "temporarily abled."
A lot of changes and adaptations are trial-and-error and experiment. Others are tried-and-trues we figured out or heard from someone else. Since I'm already here...
;-)
i'll start us off with a couple of mine:
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In 2008 because of some medical issues suddenly getting more problematically different that my doctor couldn't figure out, i began having to log every food, fluid, med etc, in order to identify what happened how. Pretty soon my spine pain was worse and spreading further than ever from bending over the kitchen counter to write in the logbook several times a day. then, on a drive-about with bestfren to thrift stores looking for used usefuls so as to not have to purcha$e new, i spotted a big wooden breadbox that first looked like a lectern lecturers use in college classes, and i thought, "My logbook could go on there and I wouldn't have to bend over the counter!" Then i saw it was a breadbox. Ha! but i decided, "Hey, it works anyway, and even better!" because the top is flat instead of slanted, so i brought it home and YES it helps a lot - much less back pain and i can read my scrawly handwriting with much less difficulty, too.
a few years before that, i did something i had read about: took the fanfold doors off the bedroom closet because they were so stubborn that they made my hand/wrist/arm/elbow/shoulder pain worse every time trying to open or close them, and standing open they stuck out into the narrow space between the closet and the foot of the bed. so i folded them open, hugged, boosted, and off each of them came from their track... and almost flattened me! i paid them back by putting them on sawhorses to make a huge cornerdesk/worktop in the junkroom.) But having everything in the closet visible made the bedroom sooo busy-looking. Not good for the relax. so i got a white tension rod designed for shower curtains over a bathtub (i.e., a solid est. 3/4" diameter) to put in the top of the closet doorway, and hung on it 2 artificial silk drapes originally meant for the livingroom (too thin/sheer for that, it had turned out), on big white wooden rings so there wouldn't be clanking when i pulled the drapes open and closed. It looks very nice, easy to manage, and the little white clippy things that hold the fabric to the rings are easy to pinch to let the fabric go when it's laundry time. (Anytime the white paint on the rings gets chipped, I get my desk bottle of white correction fluid and fix that right up! Easy peasy.)
It's such a relief to get problems solved with small changes like that that turn out a big help. What are some you've done? Any that are spoze to work that really don't? Out-of-the-blue experiments that worked out great? Share!!!
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