Quilt Show and Other Happenings

It's been a while since my last post, and a lot has happened, some good, some not so good.

I think I've mentioned that my best quilting buddy and her husband sold their home to move to northern Arkansas, an 8-hour drive from here.  For the last month or six weeks, they were packing all day, every day!  The moving van and they pulled out last Monday, and got there safely.   I've missed them all week, but she has called 2-3 times, which helps my feelings a little bit.

For about a month, my BP has been being really low, mostly since my ENT doctor put me on a new vertigo pill every day.  My primary doctor had cut my regular BP meds in half, and finally told me to stop taking the daily pills from the ENT doctor.  My BP was showing a little improvement.

Sunday morning, Oct. 14, while dressing for church, I had a bad vertigo attack.  I took the mild event pill the doctor had given me when I had the last one several months ago, and went to bed.  On Monday I woke up feeling much better.  On Wednesday I delivered my two quilt show entries and my DIl's Christmas tree skirt entry to a nearby town, and felt just fine. 

On Thursday morning my new mattress was delivered, and again I felt great!  The delivery guys left about 11:50, and all was well, except the couch and coffee table in the den were still pushed across the room so they could get the mattress in.  They had been gone about 10 minutes when my legs and arms seemed to have no bones!  I fell across the coffee table and rolled off to the floor, just about a foot from the phone on a little table.  I could not reach it for about 20 minutes when I was finally able to scoot and stretch enough to reach it.  I called my next door neighbor who has a key to my house, thank goodness.  She came over, got my vertigo pills from the bedroom, and helped me get on the couch, where I stayed until about 6 PM.  This episode was before my best friend had moved, and she came over and helped move the furniture back in place, put the sheets on my new mattress, and got me in bed, where I stayed until Friday morning!  Woke up feeling better.  Went to grocery store, and did just fine. 

Quit show was Saturday; friend could not go; moving truck was loading her household.  I was feeling fine.  I knew I couldn't pick up the quilts until after 4 PM, so I decided to wait until after 3 PM to arrive at show; still feeling fine.  Unfortunately I got there just after the crew started taking the quilts down; as I went in, they were starting to take MY BLUE STARS off the rod!  I asked them to wait so I could get a picture!  They didn't like it, and wanted me out of their way.  My QUILTER'S QUIPS, and my DIL's CHRISTMAS TREE SKIRT were already down.  (See past posts for pictures.)  I was so disappointed not to get pictures of them hanging! 

Oh well, all was not lost!  My Blue Stars got a blue ribbon, 1st place, and my Quilter's Quips got a red ribbon, 2nd place.  DIL's tree skirt got a red ribbon, 2nd place.  I wasn't surprised that she got a ribbon, but I was suprised that mine got ribbons in their classes! 

After getting our quilts, (DIL was moving her dad from one nursing home to another one closer to her work and home), I decided to go on to Penneys to pick up some slacks I had ordered, and then came home, still feeling just great.

Last Sunday morning I got dressed and parked my car at church.  Got out of the car and started walking up the row of parked cars toward the church door.  As I reached the second car from mine, a really severe vertigo attack hit me, and I rolled all over the hood of someone's car, heading for the pavement!  The doorman saw me and came running, and another man I'd never seen (a first-time visitor) came from the parking lot behind, and together they got me back to the passenger seat of my car.  Someone told our retired pastor, and he came out and drove me to the hospital ER, where I was checked out, and sent home about 2:30 PM.   Back to bed again! 

After the Thursday attack, I had talked to my doctor and an appointment was made for Monday, before the second Sunday event, which my son took me to.  A 24-hour heart monitor was ordered, which I finished yesterday at noon,  and I have an appointment to see my ENT doctor on Thurs., Nov. 1.  After that I have to see the heart doctor, and then back to my primary doctor.  What a fun time this has all turned into.  I'm feeling better today, but still a little dizzy, so I took mild vertigo pill this morning, but I'm going to try to stay up today rather than going to bed; so far, so good.    Having had vertigo events the past two Sundays, I think I'll not try to go tomorrow.  Hopefully the ENT doctor will not fuss too much about my not taking his daily pills, and rather will come up with something I can take that will not lower my BP  down to 110/40!  It's no wonder I've not had a good summer!

If possible, today I want to sandwich a quilt I'm making for another dear friend.  More on that next post.

Just heard the sad news from Pennsylvania!  Let's all be praying for the victims! 

---"Love"