No News is Not Always Good News!

Since my post on New Year's Day, I've not made much good progress on anything!

I did spend January's first two weeks shredding old papers that should have been shredded years ago!  I filled my big garbage can full of shredded paper two weeks in a row, but then I just could not make myself continue with that!  If that junk has waited this long, the rest can wait a little longer!   So I just closed the door on that room, like it stays all the time!

Then on Jan. 15, I fell backward against the sliding closet doors in my bedroom.  I managed to knock both doors totally off the track!  Fortunately they fell back against my clothes.  It took me a few minutes, but I was able to get up by myself.  Needless to say, I didn't accomplish much that day.

My new vertigo doctor decided to send me to therapy for some neck exercises that hopefully will help.  That has kept me from have so much serious dizziness, and the therapist is also making me do lots of exercises to help my legs, which just do not want to work, as a result of the strokes years ago.

Then on Jan. 20, my son took me to the store at 8: AM, and when we got home, he started trimming trees and bushes in my back - yard.  It was my bulk trash pick-up week, and he cut all he could reach, and dragged it all around the house to the street.  He was worn out and left about 5 PM, and everything looked great, until ------ I looked out the window from my sewing machine area, and there were about six feet of tall dead  stems of Turk's Cap along the wall.   I decided I could go get that little bit cut and carried to the pile in front.  I did get them cut, and as I was stuffing them in my bucket, I fell backwards again!  I was in the grass and the ground was soft from recent rains, but I couldn't get up!  I finally turned over on my hands and knees and crawled over to the A.C. unit; looked around for my cane, and it was about twice as far away as I had crawled.  So I crawled over to get my cane and then crawled back to the A.C. unit.  My left elbow was bleeding, and of course, my right knee was hurting!  But I got up and got the bucket and decided to walk through the rose garden next to the house rather than walking the distance around the circle of the rose garden.  My right foot stepped over the 4" high metal edging, but my right foot didn't make it, so I tripped and fell again into the rose garden.  It was now beginning to get dark.  Fortunately, my phone had remained in my pocket through all this!  I called my next door neighbor and asked if she was home.  She said she was just pulling in her driveway, so I said, "Good!  Come around my house to the rose garden.  I fell, and my legs are twisted under me, and I cannot get up!"    She came immediately and managed to get me up and onto the patio where we both sat for a few minutes.  Then she got me up the step and into the den.   I sat there until I felt like I could get to my bedroom.  I got in bed, and  stayed there until morning!   I had to go to therapy that morning, and needless to say, the therapist was not too happy with me.  I could hardly move, so he took it easy on me. 

Things are still not much better, and both my ankles are badly swollen, which has NEVER happened to me before.  My right knee is hurting more, and today has not been a very good day for me.

I have managed to get a handicap permit to have my mail delivered to my porch, and today was the first day I didn't have to walk out to the street to get my mail!  Yea!!!  I also have received a MobileHelp fall button and related items that I'm trying to get accustomed to.  All my friends and my doctor were insisting, so I finally ordered it. 

The only quilting related thing I've done is figure yardage on a quilt that my friend is wanting to make.  I did get the sewing machine uncovered to patch a hole in my jeans that I tore when I fell against the bricks on the house in the rose garden fall.  I do hope to, and simply MUST, get back to working on the firefighter quilt!  It has to be finished by the middle of April for their Awards Banquet!   As a side note, today I received an invitation for a retirement party for one of the firemen I worked with, but I'll miss it unless I can get one of them to come get me, since I'm not driving now.  If I feel like going (walker and all), I'm pretty sure someone will come get me.

I had really meant to stop griping so much this year, but so far, I'm not doing a very good job of that, am I?  Friends continue to come see me and call to check on me, so that's good.  Also I have been able to stay on track with my daily Bible reading, and I watch my church's Sunday morning service on line, so that's good too! 

Next week I'll tell you about my quilting buddies coming to visit one day this week.  This post is already way too long!

I guess my blog has become more a medical record than a quilting blog!  That's not good!

I've loved reading all your blogs and seeing your beautiful quilts so far this year!  Keep on showing them, and also all the fun places you've been.  I look forward to seeing what all of you are doing!

---"Love"