Hello lovely community!
What’s been your best gadget for being at home? Hubby has total right-sided weakness (alas, his dominant side 
) and so I’m looking into random items like one-handed toilet roll holders (which NO ONE seems to make for less that £100!)
What’s been your best sanity-saver for one-handed people post-stroke?
Cheers
Imogen
Very difficult to choose. Probably my kitchen scissors which can be used for:
opening packaging
cutting up meat for meal prep
cutlery to eat my dinner
I am also very fond of my collection of one-handed pepper mills.
I have a lot of one-handed kitchen gadgets which I could list.
I could explain how to put on a bra one-handed, but that may or may not be of use to your husband. It might be more useful to loo up one-handed shoelaces.
Piece of string to go around my neck ; can hook my kindle onto it or clip things on to carry them around with me. I only have 1 hand that can feel, and that’s got a walking stick in it. Lately I’ve been much better though, and am using no stick, 2 hands and 2 legs.
good luck, Roland
Look up tools for one handed person.
Also research useful tips for amputees, you’ll learn a lot from them 
One handed pepper mills?! Awesome - thanks for the tips 
Glad you’re getting more movement Roland - great news! I knew the community would have some fab ideas 
What would your husband like to do? I have gadgets for knitting, gardening, cooking, playing cards.
Janet
Janet could you please list your favourite Kitchen aids? I’ve just lost my ‘carer’ (unofficial) who was a huge help to me when ever I had the courage to wobble around my kitchen. I am now seriously worried about how I’m going to prepare cook and eat food. I REALLY don’t want to be doing this right now but feel I may have to hammer Amazon with my PIP before I have to justify/use vouchers before every penny I spend.
I do have perching stools and a pressure cooker/airfryer combo that at least helps in preventing falls and burns standing in front of a cooker., my balance is shot and my left hand fairly useless with limited coordination and highly reduced sensation/feedback from that entire side… I’ve never cut a vegetable or a bit of cheese without wondering why it is covered in blood 
My difficulties are mainly around the actual food prep and staying on my feet
Hi @sgjools
If you Google “single handed cooking aids” you’ll get a lot of useful stuff. There are blogs, articles, hits n tips and ads (often via Amazon or eBay - so trustworthy & to your door)
A spiked chopping board is a ‘standard’. Also folk like Wiltshire Farm Foods deliver prepared microwavable meals - but then so do all the supermarkets
Caio
Simon
I can mainly stay on my feet or I sit at the table.
Scissors - cutting up meat.
Belli-clamp - holds jars, cans in plce for opening
Combined spike board and bread butterer - holds veg in place for peeling and cutting up, allows bread to be held in place for buttering
One handed can opener, although mot now have ring pulls.
A mini chopper food processor which I use to chop vegetables and cheese in place of a grater
A box grater for cheese
I have acquired these over the years and have probably forgotten some. If there is something you struggle with let me know and I’ll tell you how I do it.
Janet
Thankyou Janet that is absolutely brilliant.
Also thankyou Simon. You always give great advice to anybody that asks I did try googling ‘disability aids’ but it showed a lot of stuff like perching stools which I already have
Hi Imogen
Special chopping board from community rehab.
Elasticated shoelaces
Grab stick
Trolley
Hi Janet
Do you know where you got the grater. I need one that can stay in place while i grate with good hand.
Cheers
My father-in-law gets Wiltshire farm foods meal as he can no longer cook for himself (not the result of stroke) they seem good quality with large print instructions, always got a few in the freezer as back up.
I don’t remember, but you can get them at Argos and Amazon. Mine has a grater that is the lid of a box so that the grated material falls into the box. I hold it against my body while I grate or you could place it on a nonslip mat or in your new belliclamp.
Janet
I looked up belli clamp because sounded a fun thing
And I found lots of adverts for the same thing.
One said 160 quid reduced to 96 with a 40% discount now only 64
And the other didn’t give any discounts or any reductions and was £ 19 - afaiks It’s identical
Pays to shop around
Caio
Simon
Oh yeah the grey blobs are because the forum fault at the moment - hopefully it will get fixed soon -
I know someone on here uses one of these kitchen workstations, either @Bobbi or @mrfrederickson. Just can’t find the link to their post. But now I’ve tagged them in they might come along with a few more tips.
Don’t know how this link will appear, I hate using my phone for this sort of thing, give me a computer any day…just so limiting 
I find it more useful for than the PC for some things like screenshots.
Have you got it in PC mode but you’re using it on a phone?
If your menus and your edit look like these
Then switch so it looks like this
And then use the little down v to moving in complete post to the bottom of the screen while you move around to find other posts and copy their links etc
3¢ 
Hopefully when they fault in showing pictures is fixed though display. do you think the forum ran out of space for storing pictures? I guess not because we’ve got somebody to monitor it?
Yeh, I can’t see any of your images here
And yes, I do have it running in mobile mode.
Its more my lack of user ability thats the problem. Just wanting to quote a section from an above post is a frustrating failure to highlight. And I do try several times before I give up. And my fingers are forever touching things on the very sensitive touchscreen that I don’t want or sends me off to goodness knows where on the sight, and trying to do a search…don’t get me started 
I’m good if I can keep it short and simple on the mobile. But anything more complex is time consuming, frustrating and draining.
I’m happy to do a 121 explore some time if you want
