I am recovering from surgery. I am in pain and on crutches. I am also ‘managing’ at home alone.
So many kind people have sent me flowers via online flower delivery services. I appreciate their thinking of me so much- and every time a new delivery arrives it makes me want to weep!
When a delivery arrives I need to struggle to the door. Most delivery people don’t wait & hand me the flower box- they dump it on the ground and run. Bending to get it is awful. Some leave it a distance from the front door which has meant walking outside on crutches in rain. Then it’s a struggle to get a vase (means bending and reaching), fill it (just standing by the sink is painful), find scissors (always a metre away!) and undo package, dump flowers in (no question of trimming stalks etc) and then what to do with it? I cannot possibly carry a vase of flowers and water so my kitchen table is now a forest of green with boxes of painkillers and old flower boxes and wrapping poking through the foliage.
There are so many stages involved in dealing with a home flower delivery - something you never realise until standing and moving and picking things up and carrying them is painful and difficult.
Obviously not every ill person is on crutches. But many will have problems moving or standing or carrying things for other reasons. People are so kind to want to show sympathy & I do understand & appreciate that. But I think the way online flower shops promote sending flowers to the sick is a really bad idea.
I am trying to think what would be good to send a sick person and I think a book or magazine/periodical mights be the best idea. It goes through the letterbox, can be picked up with a picker upper, light to carry, does not need water, etc….any other ideas?