I have a shower chair and grab bars. I need hot baths when pain flares, but if it's the sacrum, then I can't get into and out of the bath. I used to have a hot tub on the patio, that was not high sided and I could just step into it. Ahhhh I long for those days again. (Hot tub died...and was returned and not replaced. )

You can sit at the table and prepare the food, and then take it to the pots or whatever to cook. But I don't do much cooking at all for various reasons, yes, standing isn't good. I had the counters built higher than normal so they suit my height and I don't have to lean over them. Opening a lower cabinet door and propping my foot on the cabinet floor helps takes strain off back, but doesn't help keep my sacrum stable. Let's just say I use the crock pot a lot?!

Inability to eat properly, small meals often, and with stress added (cortisol) and it's very difficult to find a good weight. Talk about a real catch 22 cycle!

I guess the main thing is to figure out what works and the rest goes out the window along with any guilt of not being able to, for me. If I can't well... how can I? And what good does it do to rag on myself about it? Ah, things my pain T helps me keep in perspective.

I wish you had a pain T like I do... what a world of difference. Mine is an adjunct professor with the Uni of Miami medical center, where he used to work with spinal cord injured and the like. He still instructs other doctors about management and care of the psyche I guess. I'm high maintenance. I think anyone with chronic pain is, whether they admit it or not, or allow it or not.

((((gentle hugs)))