I just wanted to say hi, I’m alive!
The night Stitches opened I got hit with the nasty flu that’s going around, and it wiped me out for about 3 weeks. I’ve had some pretty hefty migraines since then, and I had a nerve block procedure on April 1st. I don’t really want to talk about that, because it makes me quite upset. After my procedure (during which I had a very nasty migraine) the doctor told me something to the effect that the injection he performed could in no way affect the area where my pain is (even though my pain is VERY localized and has not changed location at all in the past year, and I showed him where my pain was before the procedure).
SO, I’ve been in a lot more pain since the procedure, and when I went to my follow-up appointment to discuss my condition with my doctor (who isn’t the one who performed the procedure) my husband and I took time off work (I had to take 3 days off work to recover from the procedure and I had to take vacation since I don’t have any sick time right now, and R had to take 4 hours off work to pick me up because the doctor performing the procedure was running late and they wouldn’t tell him when I would be ready so they kept telling him to come back in an hour) and drove half an hour to the clinic and we argued the entire trip there about how I was going to discuss the whole situation with my doctor without upsetting her or getting too upset myself, because my goal is for them to help me feel better, not to complain or get in an argument, so we went to the receptionist and she said that the doctor wasn’t in the clinic and that they didn’t have any appointments for me in their computer system and I really felt like that trip to my follow-up appointment really exemplifies the health aspect of my life this year.
Other things in life are good. Don’t get me wrong. If I didn’t have the other things in life, I don’t know where I’d be right now. It just seems like every time I make some progress in my health, something else goes wrong. However, because at the beginning of the year I was on that raw food diet, we signed up for the same vegetable box that Spinnity gets, and it started 4 weeks ago. Since it started, I decided that I would try to cook, so even though I haven’t been feeling very well, I have started cooking again. AND, I have even gone grocery shopping a few times! That may not seem like much to any of you, but I hadn’t been grocery shopping in about 9 months because of my back. And although since my procedure I haven’t been feeling very well, I still have been cooking some, because it makes me feel productive, and it doesn’t seem to give me migraines, like sitting in front of the computer does. Because my pain is nerve pain, my doctor told me that I’m not injuring myself when I do things, I’m just causing myself pain, so if I can get past the pain, I should be able to do more things. Maybe cooking is a path to being able to do more, because I don’t mind using my stubbornness and perseverance to create an Enchanted Broccoli Forest (scroll down to bottom for recipe).
By the way, someone notified me that the Childs size of the Oak Bark Cabled Hat (Ravelry Link) was missing some of the written directions, and when going over the pattern I noticed a few other minor errata. If you would like a new copy, please email me with the paypal email address you purchased the pattern with, or if you purchased the pattern at Stitches, if you have your receipt number, please email me and include your receipt number in your email. Thanks! If you purchased the pattern through Ravelry, you should have been sent a link to the updated copy, waiting for you to download.
P.S. This past weekend R and I went to Napa to celebrate having been together for 5 years. I forgot my camera at the B & B for most of the weekend, but I did take a few photos that I might share some day… The wine above is some of the first wine I’ve been able to drink in almost a year, because of my health, and I’m certainly glad about that! =)
