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Tips for everyday
life
We are
in the middle of a three-week-long stroke course. It is my favourite work at
the moment and my favourite time is when we conductors take a step back and encourage
the clients to start to talk to each.
During these
talks the clients give each other advice and share tips and information that will help fellow group-members to live their conductive,
rehabilitative lifestyle.
Sometimes
we conductors take a step forward again and pass on tips that we have come
across.
One
that I passed on last week was a trick for separating egg yolks from the white
with one hand. With Christmas biscuit-baking in full flow all over Germany this
is a useful skill to learn, and not only for the stroke clients who enjoy
baking. Évi, who is also a trained cook, loved it and passed it on to the
schoolchildren and adults in the cookery group, who were all really impressed.
Tip Number I
Separating an egg
All you
need is a small plastic bottle.
Break the
egg into a small bowl.
Squeeze
the bottle, hold the opening close over the yolk, but not pressing on it so as
not to break the membrane, and then release the bottle.
As the
bottle fills with air the egg yolk pops into the bottle.
Squeeze
the yolk out of the bottle into a separate bowl.
Tip Number II
Cutting nails
I thought
about this tip as I was reading the website dean’s stroke musings on 13th
November –
In this
posting the writer is wondering about how to cut the fingernails on his effected
hand when his fingers usually curl up just as the cutting is about to take
place. I wondered whether it would help to do this with a soft ball in the
effected hand.
We will
try this out tomorrow and I will post photographs later.
Has anyone
out there got any other ideas on nail cutting, or have you any other useful
tips for our clients?
