Charlotte's almost 11

I have had an eventful week to say the least. A 12 hour sit-in at A&E which turned in to an overnight stay and three detailed chest scans showed the blood clot in my leg had fragmented and part had travelled to my lungs. A lot of pain, an overnight stay and a third day in A&E; after being discharged but then developing breathing difficulties so going back, has basically been the main attraction in the last week. I am ok now, still feeling slightly tight chested but the pain has eased off! Not nice at all, quite worrying. On top of all that, I didn't take any knitting in to hospital with me, so I didn't even manage to come home with some crafty goodness!


In much nicer news, it is Charlotte's birthday on Wednesday and my parents and brother, sister in law and niece came down for some food and fun yesterday. It was the first time I'd been out of bed since Wednesday but all went well and we had a lovely time. Matt's family will come on Wednesday to see her, and then next Monday we're taking her and 2 friends bowling.



Finally, my weekly collage! I'm still having fun finding photos for each day. My photograph for last Monday was meant to be of the man in A&E who had forgotten his trousers (but remembered his cigarettes) but I felt bad sneaking photos of unbeknown subjects!


Top Left: 18/365 - The view from my hospital bed
Top Middle: 15/365 - The 'Hollyoaks Hunk' for January - my bedroom calendar
Top Right: 19/365 - My gorgeous chocolate fudge get well cake from Hayley. With her rude name for me blurred out!! ;o)
Middle Left: 17/365 - A blood pressure monitor, taken in A&E
Middle Right: 20/365 - The beginnings of a sock, waiting room knitting
Bottom Left: 21/365 - My first Cadbury's Cream Egg of 2011
Bottom Right: 16/365 - a lovely Sunday morning fry-up

Project 365 - Week 2

I have had fun this week trying to get various snap shots of what's going on in my life. Some days are easier than others.



Top left: 11/365: Blood Test Tuesday
Top Right: 10/365: Crawley Town beat Derby in the FA Cup!!
Middle Left: 14/365: My scrabble game on the iPod .... been playing ALOT recently!
Middle: 9/365: Charlotte with her face stuck in her iPod, as its been since Christmas day
Middle Right: 12/365: Hayley, eating a dried apricot. A situation we found hilarious at the time!
Bottom Left: 8/365: My parents with the children, they came to see us for the day.
Bottom Right: 13/365: Alfie has been dressing like Buzz Lightyear for a few days now!


Charlotte's school was closed yesterday due to an epidemic of Norovirus. It feels lovely today as I keep thinking its Sunday but actually its only Saturday! LOVE IT when that happens!

No change on the crafty front. Still crochet-ing like crazy to finish Charlotte's blanket but I have 2 rabbits and an elephant on order so will have to put the hook down soon and pick up the needles!

Project 365 - 4, 5, 6 & 7

I have, from my last post, figured out how to upload a blog posting from my phone. This way of doing things is a lot more complicated it has to be said, and the photos I upload come out smaller than when I do things from the computer but its definitely a good way to keep up to date with my Project 365 photos.
Clockwise from top left 6/365: A soggy school run. 4/365: A perfect evening. 5/365: A drawing from Livvy. 7/365: Tea with Hayley.

I don't, however, want the project to take over my blog so am trying to think of a way of striking a happy medium. I think I will upload a collage of photos each week, but as I have already posted 3 I will put the final 4 from this week on and upload another 7 next friday. My normal blog posts will continue as normal.

As you can see from photo no. 2/365 I am working on Charlotte's stripy blanket at the moment and this is a huge project so will take a while to complete. I'm over half way through now, on stripe 53 of 91. I picked up a seperate project the other day and got a definite look of disgust from her ladyship that I wasn't finishing the blanket so I think I must soldier on until its complete!

Project 365 numbers 2&3

I am attempting a blog upload from my phone here, this may not be completely successful. Picture number 2/365 is of Charlotte's crochet blanket, still a work in progress! Picture number 3/365 is of Alfie, collapsed after a long day playing with playmobile.

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New Year and Project 365 no.1

Its been a pretty eventful fortnight, and not in a good way unfortunately. After being in some considerable discomfort for a few days, the pain in my leg became too much to bear and because of my history of deep vein thrombosis and a blood clotting disorder I took myself (my Mum took me, but you know what I mean) down to A&E to get it looked at. I was told by two different people that I'd pulled my back out and my leg was compensating but due to a slight colour difference in my thighs they sent me for a blood test. Long story (and looong day) short, I have another blood clot in the opposite leg to the one I had in 2002. Pain has been excrutiating but thankfully is easing now, but two weeks not being able to walk has meant that my leg muscles and my knee have forgotten how to support me when I stand! I can manage short bursts of walking now, and I think I'll be ok to drive when needs arise but I'm now on lifelong blood thinning medication which isn't ideal. Still, I'm still here, alive and almost kicking!

Christmas kind of passed in a pain killer blur but the children seemed to have a wonderful time which is the point really. Luckily we'd been super organised this year and everything was done beforehand. I've not been out of the house other than to the hospital for blood tests (which is happening very regularly - I've had 6 blood tests in 14 days) but once Charlotte is back at school next week I'll have to start getting myself organised again!

Now, you'd be excused for thinking that due to my bed-bound / sofa-bound couple of weeks I'd have got a lot of knitting done, but sadly this isn't the case. I couldn't really concentrate on anything. However, Charlotte has been asking me for an elephant from a book I have (Knitted Wild Animals by Sarah Keen) for a while so I got to work on that. I finished this morning.

I have also, just a few minutes ago, decided to take part in Project 365 this year. It involves taking a photograph every day throughout the year to keep track on what you've done! Sounds like fun but you'll have to cut me some slack if I forget, cause I think its going to take a while to get in to the habit of remembering to take them!! Anyway, here is photo number 1/365 ..... the empty spot where my Christmas Tree has stood. Maybe photo number 365/365 could be the tree stood in that spot next New Years Eve?