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?
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