1. I think it's common, after a major surgery or during a prolonged illness, for people (like me!) to set up a card table to serve as recovery central. In the early weeks after I had surgery, our kitchen table was my center of operations, but Debbie and I wised up at some point and set me up with a card table in the room where I sleep and Copper spends most of his time.
So much of my life over the last six months has centered around my transplant binder, bottles of pills, a pillbox, a thermometer, a blood pressure cuff, masks, vinyl gloves, sunscreen, sanitizer, cleansing foam, sunglasses, Kleenex, pens, scraps of paper for notes, grooming tools for Copper, books, and on and on.
Taken together, these things, thanks to my benign neglect, have created quite a jumble on my card table.
2. Today, I'd had enough of the jumble.
I organized all these things, along with my camera equipment, and my efforts gave me a peace of mind I didn't realize I'd lost.
3. These days it's no contest.
My current favorite cooking utensil is the wok.
While I was unjumbling my card table, I began to imagine a shrimp stir fry.
With Thai wheat noodles.
Ah! A yellow curry.
I dreamed of a small risk: I would dare raising my potassium level in my blood and cook one small cubed potato in the curry sauce.
Red onion.
Yellow squash.
Sliced mushrooms.
Broccoli.
Red pepper.
Frozen peas, a first!
Kafir lime leaves and cilantro.
Peanuts.
I made this sweet dream come true later on.
And, I'm happy to say: It worked!
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