This disease is hard on my dishes | Arthritis Information

The past at least five times i have unloaded the dishwasher my arms give out just as i am about to sit the dishes on the cabinet shelf. I am aware of the problem and i try to be careful. I just can not do it. They come down with a bang everytime. I can lift them i just can not put them down.Oh! *hug* its going to be ok!

My husband, when my mom use to come stay with us for a few days to visit, he would say I wish she would stop cleaning the house. *raises eyebrow* Yeah... I wish hubby would say that about me cleaning the house [QUOTE=milly] Actually they tell me to do less. [/QUOTE]

As hard as it may be to do this, perhaps you need to figure out other ways to feel like you can contribute. There may be simpler, less physical ways you can.

Sending best wishes your way,
Joy
This doesn't help when you're at someone else's house (milly, please let them put away their own dishes....it will be fine) but for at home, Corelle (http://www.corelle.com/) makes some lovely, lightweight, almost unbreakable dishes. Their designs have come a long way and there are so many choices now! I love Corelle, but be warned, when they do break they essentially explode into a gazillion teeny shards..

I drop so much lately, I feel terrible.. plates, bowls, coffee cups and eggs.. I must drop 4 out of every 12 eggs I try to cook.

I use Corelle dinnerwear or paper plates. Cups are all plastic. COffee mugs are stonewear but easy to hang on to and spot cause I leave them all over the house for some unknown reason. Mine are gold colored so I know which ones are mine. It usually have 2 cups going at the same time. Such a waste! But i cannot help it.

Diet coke ot iced tea, I haev plastic purple cups. Every night I go through the house an dgather them up, they are left all over.....is this fibro fog?

I broke a Corelle cup once - right after they were HUGE in their "you can't break us" ads.

My mom just stopped, looked at me and goes "......only you, Katie."

OMG Snow!

That's almost a Darwin Award.........I just wish I had a dishwasher. I don't and break all kinds of dishes just washing them.

When we got married 21 years ago, we got a set of corelle dishes and hubby took a coffee mug to work with him every day. One day he dropped it on the concrete floor and it didn't even break but if you hit it just right on the side of the sink while washing they go kaboom into a trillion shards of correlle. I still have all the plates, one bowl, and two mugs. Not to bad after 21 years. LOL

Well the cups I broke constantly. Really pissed mom off. I would try to shove them over too many prongs on the top rack of the dishwasher. I only use my heavy plates for the holidays. I went out and bought some plastic plates and cups for everyday. I also have plastic disposable that I wash and reuse until the die. I found out the hard way that my white nice plates were a problem when my DH lost most of his vision. He's leaglly blind from type I diabeties. I made him chicken and mash potatoes and served it to him. His next comment was.... Honey where's my food..... OOps. After we finished laughing about it we bought blue plate. Have to laugh ... better that way. Not too many blue foods.

I did relent and get him a cool prostetic. The pupil is the apple computer symbol.

I have Corelle and love them. I've heard they shatter when you drop them on ceramic tile. I have Pergo flooring in my kitchen.

I seem to have the dropsies lately. I'm a hairdresser and I can drop up to 3 combs a haircut. Like those are real heavy. It's more the lack of control with my fingers. Ugh.