Possibly a dumb question about using your hand in the sling
So, my surgery is coming up in a few days and I've been "practicing" doing things one-handed, by holding my about-to-be-surgical arm against my abdomen and trying to do everything else with the good arm.
But one thing I don't know is whether my hand and fingers on the surgical arm will be available for stabilizing (not lifting) things I'm holding with the other arm.
Like, it's much easier to open up my coffee container if I can grasp the base of it with two fingers while I twist the top off...or grip the bottom of the cereal box on the counter while I fiddle with the top of the closed box...are these things I'll be able to do?
Everyone has talked so much about how hard it is to do things one-handed that I guess I know the answer to this? But I also don't see how it would impact the shoulder to use my fingers to stabilize or grip things.
Please enlighten me!