It is possible to open a a peanut butter jar one-handed; the trick is to grasp the jar between the knees and then twist with the left hand. However, I have not figured out how to get a knifeload of peanut butter out of the jar with one hand. We keep our peanut butter in the fridge, so it’s pretty stiff. I should be clear; my right hand isn’t unusable. I’m typing with it right now! But the basic principle of recovering from a shoulder dislocation, apparently, is to let the joint rest as much as possible. “Don’t do everything you can do, do a lot less than you can do,” the doctor told me. I have a very conservative regimen of exercises I do three times a day. The idea, here, is that your shoulder is held in the socket by a bunch of tendons and ligaments, and those all got stretched out whem my shoulder got wrenched out of place, and my job now is to let them contract back to their normal length. Apparently, the risk of reinjury is a lot higher if you’re younger, because your soft tissue…
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