Euphoria

The Bosch.

Our new Bosch dishwasher, pictured at left, was installed yesterday afternoon (Friday, May 6, 2011).
It means no longer having to wash our dishes manually before going to bed.
My wife has cancer, but supposedly it’s not fatal.
It’s treatable.
Actually, she has two cancers: -a) Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and -b) metastatic breast-cancer.
The Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma appeared about three years ago as a hard tumor in her abdomen.
That was poofed with chemotherapy.
The metastatic breast-cancer did not have a primary site; it never appeared in her breasts.
It was first noticed in her bones, where breast-cancer metastasizes.
We knocked that back with Femara®, the trade-name for Letrozole.
Femara is an estrogen inhibitor. Her breast-cancer was estrogen-positive.
Her breast-cancer just about disappeared.
Right now she’s having a hard time.
Doing dishes manually was a chore.
Our old Kenmore dishwasher was only three years old, but it committed the unpardonable sin.
Its rack was covered by rubberized plastic, and the ends disintegrated and came off.
Exposing the rack-ends to water, so they rusted.
That rust was being left on our dishes.
Beyond that, the top rack and spinner were adjustable.
The spinner was fed by one of three water-feeds, all protected by thin rubber diaphragms supposed to close if not used. (The spinner would open the one used.)
One unused diaphragm had disintegrated, which meant water was gushing out that port.
So much for fully cleaning the dishes in the top rack.
The Bosch had nylon coverings of all the racks, as did nearly every dishwasher we looked at. —Less prone to disintegrate.
Plus although the top rack and spinner are adjustable, there was only one port.
The feed to the top spinner was sliding.
This dishwasher is essentially my doing, in case I’m eventually left alone.
I let our dog lick off plates, and they have to be properly sanitized, even though they’re licked clean enough to put back in the cupboard.
About $950 from Mighty Lowes, including installation.
But in the euphoria of no longer having to do dishes manually, that $950 is forgotten.
And it’s very quiet; you hardly know it’s on.
In fact, it has a red on-light which illuminates our kitchen-floor.
That’s how we know it’s on.

• “Mighty Lowes” is the nationwide home-supply chain. “Lowes” has a store in Canandaigua. (“Canandaigua” [“cannan-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city to the east nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 15 miles away. —We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester.)