another hospital visit

today i went to the dressings clinic. i now only have steri-strips holding me together, in a week they should be off too, and it will be just me. just me and a daily 10 minute massage with aqueous cream. i will be getting up close and personal with my scars. but as the nurse said, it would be a shame to let such beautiful suturing go to waste. to the nurses, it is all still beautiful....

oh, and, she's not sure exactly what, but yes, he does drive some sort of sports car. i would have been most disappointed to hear otherwise.

more energy = more pictures

if you come to visit, and i do hope yu will, you will find me either here:


lots of knitting, crochet drinks and reading materiual, or here:



shiny new laptop!

more visitors

i have had visitors, while i sit here in one or other of my chairs. cangetmad may have been the first, i do know she arrived with the promised rum raisin cake from margiotta i have no pictures but i am eating the 2nd last piece as i type. it is very yum and i recommend it to all convalescents, truly i do.

halle and jarthur appeared on saturday morning with playmates for my children, and gifts!



a book to make me crochet, a book to make me laugh (only gently at the moment) and a pot of cream for Bill to anoint my feet. which is heaven, i can't reach my feet very well at the moment, and they are not the most attractive feet you cold hope for right now. peppermint foot lotion is da business.

after an unscheduled trip to the hospital to get my dressing changed (they had not after all applied showerproof ones) i had visits from Maria, my friend across the road, and from hfnuala who brought me this lovely shawl:



which looks much better on than draped over the laptop on a table... it gets used in the evening when the lovely shawl from sally isn't quite warm enough. the perils of having the comfortee (Nico's word) chair in the bay window.

on sunday i don't think i had *any* visitors. this can't go on!

the days are a blur, of course. Ysolda came and brought cakes - enough for everyone. i managed to snap this before the last one was consumed:



on wednesday spinningfishwife came, bearing chocolate cake and these:



there are also sock needles and a row counter, but i couldn't find them when i took the photo. there is also a simple sock pattern, so i'll try that before i try anything in the book!

not long after hfnuala joined us with Aisling. and now i am too tired to type and will go and crochet instead.