Cooked my first dinner in over a month last night!

7 years ago

I feel so bad for DH, who has taken over the dinner cooking since my back went out at the end of October. He works long hours and finds cooking when he’s tired stressful. I’ve stayed home in our rural home this past week looking after myself and the sciatica has been a bit less, so I decided to cook dinner for us when he came home from the city where he works and lives during the work week.

I thought a roast dinner would be easiest with minimal prep or hovering over, so we had roast beef and gravy with roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes, mushrooms and asparagus. It was all good and DH got to relax for a change.

Sciatica’s amped up today, but I don’t think it was cooking dinner that did it.

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roy4me

7 years ago

I have had a really bad time with sciatica tecently.

What finally worked well is acupuncture. I had three sessions over a four week period.

Amazing.

She does a lot of deep massage prior to the acupuncture

Also do daily exercises I learned from

physical therapy last year.

Feel better soon.

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Islay Corbel
7 years ago
You poor thing - sciatica is a nasty thing, but well done for cooking a nice meal.
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Jasdip
7 years ago
Your 'first' meal sounds wonderful. Roasts are pretty easy, so good choice. Best wishes for the sciatica to get better.
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I also think you made a good choice, but I hope that sciatica relents soon and you get back to your kitchen and your regular life.

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nancyjane_gardener
7 years ago
I try to make extra and freeze with my foodsaver just for these occasions. I make big batches of soup and things like chili and even roasts and mashed potatoes.

The soups come in handy when someone is sick, the hardier meals if I'm just tired of cooking.
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colleenoz
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7 years ago
We had a freezer full of homemade meals, which DH steadily worked his way through before resorting to cooking meals himself :-). I’m still stuck in cooking large meals and what DH doesn’t take down to the city for his work week evening meals goes into my freezer.
colleenoz
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7 years ago
Thank you, that’s a treatment I hadn’t considered but am willing to try.
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colleen, my former boss, Chrystal, was absolutely sold on acupunture for back issues she suffered. Here insurance doesn't pay for it, of course, but she has a friend who is an acupuncturist. Deborah is from Australia, oddly enough, but now lives in Lansing, I think. I know several people who told me she helped them with intractable pain.

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Louiseab
7 years ago
Feel for you Colleen, I broke a hip 4 years ago and had complication so wasn’t up to my usual cooking repertoire so hubby had to step up. Then about a month ago I broke the other hip and he’s cooking again. He doesn’t complain but I know he would rather I do it. Hopefully soon, I’ll be back in charge.
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Oh Louise I do hope your hip improves soon. I’m over this, I’m sure you are too!

Cooked my first dinner in over a month last night!

roy4me

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