So here’s just a smattering of what I’ve been up to recently.
And boy, is there ever more than that… woo. I didn’t document a lot of what I’ve been up to these past few months! But there will be more. Oh, yes, there will be more.
Summer turns to fall, Fall into winter, and I’m finally (kind of?) above water again. This has been a trying few months, to say the least.
For a while I was pretty sick from a reaction to some shots I got… and then I got hit with a pretty serious case of the blues (likely from one of the shots). I couldn’t shake it for a while, and I was just about at wits’ end there for a bit. I didn’t really want to talk to anybody or do anything. Luckily along came a gym membership – a fabulous birthday present – and that helped. Then came ‘the first adjustment’.
The regular workouts helped to highlight that those pesky pains in my left arm weren’t gone. Having received the wrong sort of treatment from the first doc, I decided to go to a chiropractor instead. Well, let’s just say things were much, much worse than the first doc had diagnosed. My first vertebra had slipped out from under my head and was working in tandem with a seriously injured shoulder muscle to cut off blood supply and all nerves to my left arm and ribs. Awesome! Needless to say, the last month has been frought with pain, overall discomfort and a complete lack of concentration as my body was being put back together. Throw two weeks of being snowed in in there, and I was one big ol’ mess by New Year’s.
I am getting better, slowly. Despite the pain, I’m glad I went for a second opinion. I was able to finally go back to the gym for the first time in over a month today, and it felt wonderful. I’ve got a long way to go (I’m still on a 5-lb weight restriction, but seriously – I have to do laundry here!), but I’m on the way.
I have kept busy – though not with knitting, mostly. I’ve been sewing up a storm, and making a lot of other little crafty things. I’ve knit maybe three things since my last entry. A lot changes when your doc says you can’t carry a knitting bag! I can’t carry anything actually. But I still do, because I’m a bad kid.
I will try to update with photos on the morrow… I have a couple hundred to upload!
