Happy New Year!
Jan. 16th, 2018 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukWell, Christmas and New Years was really nice. I had my surgery and while I'm still recovering I still enjoyed things for the holidays and slept a lot. I also got a cold and that didn't help either. Sighs. We had my MIL here and that was wonderful and Shanda was here for a few days and that was awesome.
So when we last left my poor journal I was recovering from a cold and worked my last week of work. I spent that weekend cleaning and getting things setup for xmas since I was going to be laid up a bit. I will admit that being home for 2 days by myself was handy since I had the quiet to do my thing. I also had the Craftvent shawl to work on in between things and that was good too. Tuesday the 19th I had lunch with Mel's coworkers at Mamma Louisa's and then I went home for final prep before taking a Lyft to my operation. I was very surprised I got to ride in a Tesla Model S. It was swanky.
The surgery was okay. They had me on a lidocaine pump which was neat and I was very sore when done but I really didn't feel anything except in a few spots where they pumped me full of lidocaine some more. Got cleaned up and bandaged up and Mel was there to pick me up. We had to stop on the way out to get a bandaid for a stitch I had at the top of my left thigh...it was going to catch on everything. I was bandaged for a few days and Thursday night the bandages had slipped an bunched behind my knee that I could not sleep and the vicodin made me feel weird (face numbness) so I called the doc in the AM to see if I could take them off earlier than my appt that afternoon. Luckily Wander was there to help me since things were bloody and stuck to sutures and I hadn't really looked at the damage and it was hard to move etc. Then came the best and hardest shower of my life. The one after Benny was much easier. I had to sit down for this one and slowly scrub over the sutures. The sharpie marks from the surgeon took a week or so to come off. AFter that I was just in compression thigh highs for a week and then moved to only compression knee socks and now I'm doing pretty good. The legs are weirdly stiff, especially the one they ablated the vein in. It pulls something fierce and I have to keep getting up and walking...oh noes...more walking. :) They took the sutures out the afternoon I took the bandages off which was nice.
After that it was into holiday things pretty much full swing just at a much more slow rate than I normally do. That was okay. I needed to take things easy and Shanda helped me get lasagna done and pies. Mel and his mom had fun shopping and doing things and Benton was super excited to have folks there and presents and the like. Unfortunately, just as we finished the holiday Mel and Ellen got bad colds and Benton was lethargic with a kinda cold too. I knit on my shawl, watch MacGuyer (original series) and dinked around for like a week. All good. I finished the shawl and blocked it ready to wear.
Over New Years I worked on banners with the household and we got new furniture for the front room. The IKEA table went to Ari's and we got a 1915 mahogany gateleg table and then a side 1950s Danish Modern to use when we needed big space. We had a lot of folks who do not have linen banners for themselves and we needed to teach the method and we have this great big porch and well, we did banners. I had given everyone homework and well...only one person really did that but it all worked out in the end. New Years night there was painting, good dinner, light saber fights and then watching Spiderman Homecoming with a bunch of people. I painted more banners and we had a nice week with Ellen before Ben and us went back to work and school.
Work has been busy and all of the SCA stuff is getting busy again too. The weekend before we came back was Kingdom 12th Night and Benton was awarded his Lion's Pride. The tail is uber cute.
So, albums for friends and family:
Xmas 2017
Leg Surgery Kinda Graphic?!
My Shawl:
So when we last left my poor journal I was recovering from a cold and worked my last week of work. I spent that weekend cleaning and getting things setup for xmas since I was going to be laid up a bit. I will admit that being home for 2 days by myself was handy since I had the quiet to do my thing. I also had the Craftvent shawl to work on in between things and that was good too. Tuesday the 19th I had lunch with Mel's coworkers at Mamma Louisa's and then I went home for final prep before taking a Lyft to my operation. I was very surprised I got to ride in a Tesla Model S. It was swanky.
The surgery was okay. They had me on a lidocaine pump which was neat and I was very sore when done but I really didn't feel anything except in a few spots where they pumped me full of lidocaine some more. Got cleaned up and bandaged up and Mel was there to pick me up. We had to stop on the way out to get a bandaid for a stitch I had at the top of my left thigh...it was going to catch on everything. I was bandaged for a few days and Thursday night the bandages had slipped an bunched behind my knee that I could not sleep and the vicodin made me feel weird (face numbness) so I called the doc in the AM to see if I could take them off earlier than my appt that afternoon. Luckily Wander was there to help me since things were bloody and stuck to sutures and I hadn't really looked at the damage and it was hard to move etc. Then came the best and hardest shower of my life. The one after Benny was much easier. I had to sit down for this one and slowly scrub over the sutures. The sharpie marks from the surgeon took a week or so to come off. AFter that I was just in compression thigh highs for a week and then moved to only compression knee socks and now I'm doing pretty good. The legs are weirdly stiff, especially the one they ablated the vein in. It pulls something fierce and I have to keep getting up and walking...oh noes...more walking. :) They took the sutures out the afternoon I took the bandages off which was nice.
After that it was into holiday things pretty much full swing just at a much more slow rate than I normally do. That was okay. I needed to take things easy and Shanda helped me get lasagna done and pies. Mel and his mom had fun shopping and doing things and Benton was super excited to have folks there and presents and the like. Unfortunately, just as we finished the holiday Mel and Ellen got bad colds and Benton was lethargic with a kinda cold too. I knit on my shawl, watch MacGuyer (original series) and dinked around for like a week. All good. I finished the shawl and blocked it ready to wear.
Over New Years I worked on banners with the household and we got new furniture for the front room. The IKEA table went to Ari's and we got a 1915 mahogany gateleg table and then a side 1950s Danish Modern to use when we needed big space. We had a lot of folks who do not have linen banners for themselves and we needed to teach the method and we have this great big porch and well, we did banners. I had given everyone homework and well...only one person really did that but it all worked out in the end. New Years night there was painting, good dinner, light saber fights and then watching Spiderman Homecoming with a bunch of people. I painted more banners and we had a nice week with Ellen before Ben and us went back to work and school.
Work has been busy and all of the SCA stuff is getting busy again too. The weekend before we came back was Kingdom 12th Night and Benton was awarded his Lion's Pride. The tail is uber cute.
So, albums for friends and family:
Xmas 2017
Leg Surgery Kinda Graphic?!
My Shawl:
