Hey y'all!
It's been a while (nearly a year) since
my last post. I've had a rough year to say the least, but hopefully
things are starting to get back to more of a normalcy. Those of you
on Facebook already know most of it.
On Easter Sunday of last year, both my
husband and youngest daughter were rushed to the E. R. with double
pneumonia. My daughter was allowed to go back home with me, but was
so very sick. My husband however, was admitted to the hospital here
into ICU. I was at home with our youngest, because she needed
constant care. That night, he was air flighted to a larger
hospital in a coma. He stayed in the coma for 12 days, (all this
time my youngest was still needing care while recovering from her
illness so I wasn't able to be at the hospital with him, as it was
two hours away – so my oldest daughter and son in law stayed with
him) Then it was six more weeks in the hospital while I stayed with
him there and my daughters handled things at home - and then much
rehab at home.
Just about the time that he was getting
back to good health, I ended up in the ER. I was diagnosed with
gall stones and sent home with advice to see a surgeon. A month
later I was back in the ER, this time with acute pancreatitis and
sent to the same hospital two hours away for emergency surgery.
During the first surgery one of the ducts of my gall bladder that was
full of stones sort of disintegrated and left a huge hole in my
liver. So I was fitted with drain tubes and several days later they
did more surgery to repair my liver. This was not fun.
I am however, now back on my feet,
and have been working on designs more and more. I can't crochet
much at one time (due to the ganglion cysts in my wrists) but I have
been doing a good bit of spinning and knitting to take up the time
when I can't crochet. I quite enjoy spinning and dying my wool
yarns so in the future I'm sure you'll be seeing quite a bit of those
yarns in projects (however, I will always use the acrylic yarn for
dolls as it simply holds up best)
I cant make any guesses as to how much
I will post right away, but just know I'm trying. I do have some pictures of shawls and a few other things I've knitted (tho many other projects of late have been gifted and I neglected to get pics). I have a couple of crochet designs in the early stages at the moment, so those will be a little while yet - as I attempt to get back in the groove.
It feels good to feel good again. :D
