Up and Down

This week has been a bit up and down health wise and emotionally.

For a few days out of the last week my back has been exceptionally

painful, with no position be it standing, sitting or lying providing any

comfort. Insomnia was back with avengence resulting in me ordering

a new fridge freezer at 5am on Friday morning having been awake

since 3am. Saturday I was struggling to breathe a problem I haven’t

had properly in years. Eventually after the second dose of mestinon

it eased but for a while there I was fully expecting a trip to hospital.

I have been waiting for my health to take a nosedive, you can’t be

through the sheer amount of losses Jay (Mr Myasthenia Kid) and

I have through December and January and walk away unscathed.

Jay had to see his consultant dermatologist this week as he suffers

with Psoriasis. In his follow up letter it stated  his Psoriasis was flaring

up due to “ major life events” it was only then when I saw that it black

and white that I even began to acknowledge that what we have just

been through isn’t normal and isn’t just one of those things. I excused

myself for having a bad day last Thursday and spending most of it in tears.

I accidentally called Frankie, Willow. His face lit up like Willow was going

to walk through the door at any minute and my heart broke all over again.

I hated the fact I had lifted his hopes up, when she will never be coming

home.

So due to all the emotional fallout of the last week and not being particularly

well things have been quite slow on the sewing front. I have had a couple

of days where I haven't sewn at all. I won’t lie I am struggling a bit under

the weight of it all. However there are some exciting things happening

in the future which I have to keep under wraps at the moment. As soon

as I can share I will.

Makes this last week:

Phone stand and glasses case

Thread catcher

Thread catcher and storage canister

Pineapple quilt block, my first attempt using a creative grids pineapple trim tool.
It needs lots more work. For those of you who don't know about quilting each
type of quilt design has a different name. This is a pineapple quilt block.