6 posts tagged “lily of the valley shawl”

I underestimated this knee thing. In my mind I could see myself hobbling around the house sans crutches by today. This is not going to happen. The pain is not horrible. The swelling is uncomfortable. I have taken only 3 of the pain meds since I have been home. My pain tolerance level is high and frankly it is not that helpful. I have switched to over the counter NSAIDs to help with the swelling and mild discomfort. I laugh at myself when I think that I would have been able to get on my exercise bike.

My kids have been incredible. However, I have stressed them out a bit. Thing 2 makes sure the crutches are right by my side. He gets nervous when I hobble around without them. Don't worry I can't go far. I was also oozing a bit and he told me that maybe if I used my crutches more that would not happen. The nurse who called to check on my progress got a chuckle out of that and seemed to agree with him. J laughed at me when she realized that when I woke up before either of them, I carried what I needed (phones, book, band aids, etc.) in a little backpack to my chair in the living room. Luckily our house is a ranch style or I would be going down stairs on my butt.

Yesterday my Mom called to tell me about a gathering for my Grandma's birthday. Mom and Dad forgot about my surgery. I intentionally told them about it last week so they would not worry so long. I am not really surprised they forgot. I don't feel bad it just is another part of my life.

Ang's husband Doug brought dinner over. Earlier in the day somebody else offered to bring dinner to us and I declined. It was her birthday, but I was so touched by her offer. Doug called and told me he had food and wondered if anybody would be here to get the door. His generousity overwhelmed me. Oh Angie is out of state for a wedding. She has been texting me frequently to keep tabs on me.

Today the plan is more sitting. J may take me to the yarn store to get a little help on my shawl. Otherwise we are on season 2 of Alias. I have two books that I can read too. That seems like a doable adjenda.

I am home and feeling good. Actually, right now I am feeling very good. Sorry for the TMI, but I got my monthly gift from Mother Nature so on top of knee pain I have cramps and hip pain. Everybody at the hospital was so nice. When I came to in recovery they told me I was a light weight (meds wise.) Then the nurse said, "OK I have to ask you something. Is your hair naturally curly?" I thought that was funny because of its timing but my curls are so irratic I don't think anybody would intentionally perm their hair like this. 

J was with me when my relaxing meds kicked in. I owed her. 2 years ago when she had her surgery I got such a big kick out of her giggles. She is not a giggly girl. I even took a picture. She did not take one of me. Once I got into the operating room things went fast. They had my arms out on two side boards. The oxygen mask was tickling my nose making it itch so somebody offered to scratch my nose for me by rubbing my mask on the itch. That was the last thing I remembered. Cool.

It felt good to get something to drink (hot tea and WATER) and they brought me cinnamon toast as well. I passed on the extra pain meds and they let me go home. Really I was home by 4. The hospital is minutes from my house.

At about 6:30 I asked Alan to go get my pain meds. Now I am feeling great. My knee is propped up with ice (not sure how it is doing any good with the wrapping) on my knee and a heated rice pack for my back craps.

All is great. I think the crutches will not be necessary for long as I am able to bear weight.

Tomorrow will consist of reading and movie watching. I think I am going to have somebody take me to YLS to get some help from Kelly J on my shawl. It is time for the edging.

After having a nice dinner with my in-laws who were visiting, J and I hit the LYS to return some needles (only the new ones were not in yet) and make a donation to the roof sit fund raiser that was going on. Knitters were gathering in their jammies. Spinners were spinning and oh how I wanted to join them, but I needed to get home to finish some last minute things before J and I leave on our big adventure. I did manage to spend a little bit o cash though. Really I did not mean to, but my friend found out she is having a baby girl and her shower is in July. So currently I am working on three projects.

• Lily of the Valley Shawl that was supposed to accompany me on the trip. Oh well. It is just beautiful, but not finished. And I have a little mistake that needs to be fixed.
• A pair of socks that will be part of my photos along the trip. You'll see.
• It's a Girl so that mean Helena! Right Holly Bee? Yes, I love this sweet sweater that much and yes, I am that lazy that I don't want to learn a new pattern.
  

Both of my children have had experience knitting. J has said she has no desire to make anything. She tried once, but did not enjoy it. She picked out a hat pattern for me to make. J looked at the yarn and then I had her feel it. She met alpaca. Mmmm. Love. I could hear her talk about knitting. Then she asked me if I was showing her all of this to get her interested in knitting. No that was not my plan, but if she is so inclined to do so, so be it. We will see.

The big adventure starts tomorrow. My next post will be in July with many, many pictures.

This will not be done in time for me to take on my trip but that is ok. I was jamming along even to the point where I took it along in the car. Then something happened and now it is tink time (knit backwards.)

Since I had this gift certificate to use at the yarn store, I decided to knit myself a shawl. I bought myself some beautiful yarn. Well they call it yarn but it may be left over fiber optic material or angel hair. The netting is holding the yarn together otherwise it will just slip into a clump.

Oooooo. Fun. This is the pattern I chose:

Lily of V