is anyone still here?

It’s been FOREVER since my last post, and I really feel remiss here – that broken arm really knocked me for a loop. I never stopped having horrible amounts of pain, and after the cast came off in July, I was still feeling screamy. In came months of PT in which I went 2-4 times a week and got my wrist worked on and bent to and fro for me. I was still in pain, and had a MRI in August. In September, I had surgery on my thumb tendon, because scar tissue had built up thickly around it, and I couldn’t use my thumb properly. That surgery was a success, resolving my thumb and right side wrist pain, but I still had a lot of pain on the left side of my wrist.

More months of PT later, it was clear something was still wrong with my arm. Earlier this month, I had another MRI done on it, and it turns out my ulna healed too high up and at an angle, rubbing directly on other bones. No wonder it hurt so much all the time! So I am going in for surgery again on February 8th, hopefully to fix the problem at its core, by shortening my ulna bone so that there will be no more rubbing. I find it more than a little ironic that in order to fix the broken arm that started the whole thing, they have to break the arm again, with more screws and plates coming into play.

Lesson learned: never break your arm badly.

I have knit a little through all of this – mostly stockinette and garter stitch, things that didn’t bother my wrist too badly. You can, as always, keep up with my projects on Ravelry – I try to keep that page updated.

I’ve missed being part of the online knitting community, and I hope that I can come back in. It’d be great to reconnect.

I’ve had Enough Fun Now

So last week I told you about my bone bruise. Guess what happened this week?

I kinda fell over and landed on my wrist.

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And managed to break it in three places.

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May I stop having fun now?

well that’s been fun

Exactly a month ago today I fell down the stairs. Four stairs. Four. Unremarkable really, except it HURT LIKE BUGFUCK. FOR A LONG TIME. By the time I had xrays on the 22nd, there was so much blood in my bones that they couldn’t tell if I broke anything or not. Long story. Short version: stupid waiting.

Anyway, I had a MRI done last week and finally saw the ortho today. I broke my leg and had an “extensive” bone bruise that basically made the bone blood filled and swollen.

Someone please let me off the ride already. On the upside: at least it’s a month behind me. On the downside: more weeks of crutch hobbling. Another leg check next week, and maybe then I’ll be cleared for PT.

Someone remind me why I always have exciting things happen to me?

I miss you guys!

I’ve missed you

I wish to apologize for not blogging, not answering emails, not plurking, and for otherwise having fallen off the online knitting planet.

My physical recovery from the surgery I underwent in October has been more difficult and protracted than I could have imagined possible. This has taken its toll on me, both physically and emotionally. I must confess that I’ve gone to the ER on average once a week – when things are especially bad, I have gone three or four times in a week. Yes, I am working with my physicians to try and improve this situation. No, this situation is not satisfactory. Obviously, this has had a deleterious effect on my work productivity.

It was never my intention to withdraw from the public aspects of my online life, nor was it my intention to take so long with delivering purchased kits and yarns.

If you are waiting on yarn, you are on my list and I have not forgotten about you.

If you are waiting on a kit, please know that all yarn has been dyed and reskeined, all extras have been assembled, the address labels have been printed and affixed onto the packets, and the only hangup is getting the pattern together in a pretty and cohesive writeup. To that end, I have hired help, and I am as anxious as you are to see the wait come to an end.

As always, I am grateful for your support.

Surgery Update

Just a quick update, bellamoden is out of surgery, and is okay, but suffering a migraine on top of the recovery (ow!)

She promises to write soon as she’s feeling better.

now

Not a moment too soon, today is the day I go in for surgery and say hello to the fifteenth mouth incision, three inches long this time, and goodbye to two plates and nine screws and start the next stage of getting better and healing from this lovely infection that’s been in my haid for two months and change.

No idea when I’ll be able to get online again, but updates will be posted.

waiting

Two more sleeps. I apologize for not responding much to emails and such these days – it’s a full time job being full of gunk and waiting for surgery.

waiting

October 22 is sooo far away. It isn’t, but it is. Until then, I have mindless knitting, Picasso, and Alice.

Waiting to feel better is just no fun at all

seven

Happy seventh birthday to you, Matisse, my very favorite matisse-meow-sneezy-drooly-choo-chen!

It’s been a wonderful six and a half years with you.

numbers

30 days of being sick.

9 screws.

2 plates.

11 things that are gunky and making Rebecca sick.

22 days until they are surgically removed.

25 dollars, the amount that my yarn will cost tomorrow morning.

1 Rebecca, trying to catch up to everything. Thank you for your patience.