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| Kit I Started in the Hospital |
Hello Everyone!
I have had an interesting few weeks!
Some of you may not of seen my short blog update a couple weeks ago.
I ended up in the hospital for a full week because of an abscess in
the lower half of my left knee. About thirty-six hours after the
surgery to remove the abscess, they released me from the hospital.
They made three vertical incisions. They didn't stitch them closed
because they want the incisions to heal from the inside out. A nurse
from Home Health Care comes twice a week and looks at it and bandages
it. As long as I have her coming, they pay for all my
bandaging supplies.
As to how the abscess happened, that is
a guessing game. It could have been when I tripped mowing the lawn or
when I was on my hands and knees in my bedroom removing carpet.
There is not really
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| More Kits Adana Gave Me! |
an entry wound. Either way, I went into the
Emergency room for the second time in three days on July 31. They
started IV antibiotics on me and decided to put me in the
“observation unit”, which was suppose a twenty-four stay. After I was there for twenty-four hours I was supposed to either be
released or moved to a different unit. I was there after the
twenty-four. Shortly after I was there for forty-eight, they moved me
to a different unit. So they moved me on Sunday. Thats when other
doctors started getting involved. When Jack and Rachel were visiting
me Monday, Jack told one of the doctors that pumping me full of
antibiotics was going to do no good if they couldn't find the
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Life's Little Tangles Before This
Times Stitching |
source.
He told him they need to do an MRI or CT scan. The doctor agreed. I
had an MRI later that day. It showed a couple of abscess areas in
the lower part of my knee. Shortly after I was moved upstairs, a
stitching friend (thanks Adana!) brought me several kits to
stitch. She even
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Even More From Adana!
Only thing not pictured are the scissors |
bought me some scissors, bless her heart!!:) On
Wednesday someone from Orthopedics came in and talked with me and
showed me the MRI findings. They sent the x-ray machine in because
the MRI was showing that I had a “foreign object” in my knee that
had caused the whole thing. The x-ray showed nothing, so it was
concluded the MRI was “over analyzed”. They did the surgery
Wednesday evening and I went home on August 7. Jack and I think the "foreign object was so small, it came out with the puss from the abscess unseen.
I went to see the surgeon yesterday. He
likes the looks of how I am healing. He okayed me to start doing
small things, but nothing on my knees, of course! I see him again in
two weeks.
I looked at
“Peacock”
and thought about stitching on it, but didn't. I did however stitch
some on
“Life's Little Tangles” and
“Noel”
one of the kits Adana gave me. I ran into an issue with
"Noel" pattern when I made the mistake of doubling up pearl cotton size 12. Silly me was reverting back to normal DMC where most of the time you make it two strands thick. Boy did I feel dumb on that one!
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| Life's Little Tangles Now |
I thought I needed more white. I got some white from the maker of the kit, Turns out I had
just enough. But I ended up ordering the green DMC
503 pearl cotton from 1-2-3 Stitch. I need to watch a video on how to
do a particular design (spider rose). I think I found one on You Tube. I am suppose to do this with DMC floss not ribbon. Most of the videos show it with ribbon, but I found one with regular floss.
When I ordered the 503 Pearl Cotton
size 12 from 1-2-3, my adoring husband, asked me if I
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| Order From 1-2-3-Stitch |
wanted/needed
anything else! We found out if we added DMC 310 and B5200, both pearl
cotton size 12, that it would not increase the shipping cost at all!
So we did that!!
Chance and Sarah went out of state and
picked up Chance's daughter so she could have her one month a summer
with Dad visitation. She is a beautiful young lady. Very well
behaved. Jack and I immediately loved her! She dotes on her baby
sister like she is a pro! They arrived here the day I was released
from the
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| Dahlia's Smash Birthday Cake |
hospital, which also happened to be Dahlia's first birthday.
She celebrated her birthday at Chance's parent's home. She had a
purple frosted smash cake she had fun with!
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| Brianna and Dahlia Cuddling |
She was wearing one of
the dresses Papaw bought her for her birthday during her celebration.
Our washing machine died in early June
when our basement flooded because of a very fierce storm that our
drainage system in the basement couldn't keep up with. The water
heater died as well, but Jack was able to fix that. The day I got out
of the hospital, on the way home, we stopped by Home Depot and bought
me a new machine. We talked that we were washing at the laundromat
and drying at home but we were spending more on the laundry this way
than if we just replaced the machine. Even though it made things
tough, we just took the
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Dahlia After "Smashing" Her
Birthday Cake |
leap of faith and did it! Father God has seen
us through this trial. We are okay!!
Another time Father God had His
protective hand on Rachel and me was yesterday. We were heading down
a state highway, 55 mph, when the front right tire and wheel came
completely off the car!!! Rachel was driving. She has her learner's
permit. She managed to get the car over enough to the right that cars
could safely pass, but not so far that the tow truck couldn't pick it
up. She came to as safe a stop as any professional!! :) You could see the
terrified look on her face but she did great. We did not crash, did
not get harmed, and the car got home unscathed. Jack says the whole thing
happened because the tire that came off was a bit bigger than the
other three. No harm to the tire either. What we are going to do is
put the tire back on long enough to get to the tire place and then
get the proper size tire mounted!!
Well, that is it for now. Happy stitching,everyone!
