January,
I want to thank you for recommending I buy one or two nice pieces of china in order to overcome my reluctance to have nice things for fear of losing them to my illness.
I ordered one place setting of beautiful Noritake china from Amazon and it came in the mail today. It's wonderful.
I am so grateful to you and everyone who's supported me.
I'm so glad I found PC. I get such great advice here. Many heads are definitely better than one.