The Weekend

I figured you were tired of looking at the pic of my toe, so I was playing with the camera tonight.  Ridley was happy to accommodate me and have his pic taken.  Most of his Christmas friends have been adopted so he thought it was good to have a little play time to keep him from being lonely! 

It was such a busy weekend, but we had a nice time.  Shopping was great, I found some lovely treasures at The Barn.  I got a ring that can only be described as a pink chandelier for my finger!  I actually squealed a bit when I saw it!

Plus I swear all we did was eat amazing food this weekend!  R made prime rib Saturday, and we went to Red Lobster on Sunday because it was my Mom's birthday Monday. 

They are leaving in a few minutes, and I am sad to see them go.  That's the trouble with company...it's always sad when the fun ends!  Of course it does mean that I will have time to get back to work.  I have a snowman nearly stitched up, you will be seeing him in a day or two.  I also have two bears in the works.  I am a bit sleep deprived, so that's the first priority today. 

Wednesday I have to go have my follow up from my MRI.  I know some of you asked what the result was, and I was supposed to go last Tuesday, but I rescheduled it.  It was below zero and icy all day and I didn't want to run the risk of falling on my head and doing more damage.  Lets face it, that was a very real possibility with my track record.  My knee paid the price this weekend and it's swollen to twice it's normal size today, but it was worth it!

At any rate, I guess I will get going, Mom and Jim should be stopping by soon on their way out of town. 

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!  Hugs, K. <3

Sneak Peek #1 & Knee Update

As promised I am giving you the first sneak peek at the items for the website update on the 2nd.  I have these two done, and another one in the works.  There will be more to come, and I will be giving you more sneak peeks later in the week.  I am finding myself enamored of things that sparkle and shine...and ring this year!

As for my knee...well lets start with last Friday.  They told me that they would be referring me to an orthopedic specialist but it has been my experience that unless you are knocking on deaths door the medical community doesn't move real fast on things, so I took a vicodin and flopped into bed around 5:30 am, and it took about a half hour before I fell asleep.  At 8:35 am the phone rang.  A woman on the other end of the line who was entirely too cheery for that time of morning told me I needed to be at the doctors office by 9:30 am because the doctor was going to see me between surgeries.  She also told me not to eat or drink anything in case I needed surgery!  Um what?  My sleep deprived, vicodin addled brain had a hard time processing all of that..but by some miracle I made it on time.  (And without coffee!!!)

The doctor showed up some 45 minutes later still wearing scrubs and a hair net.  He poked, prodded and twisted my knee and announced that he wanted me to get an MRI and sent me home.

Now the doctor who did the x-rays the day before at the Urgent Care place told me my knee cap was absolutely broken.  He showed me the x-rays and pointed out the wedge shaped divot in my knee with the piece sticking up that fit into it.  I am no doctor but it looked pretty well broken to me.  The Orthopedic doctor wasn't so sure.  He thought I had a multiple fractures and possibly soft tissue damage. 

Yesterday they called and told me it's not broken at all and it's just soft tissue damage but I still need an MRI.  I asked them what that divot shaped piece was then?  They didn't know, and that the MRI would reveal all...I have visions of a lab tech in a fortune teller costume doing this MRI at this point.  I go in Monday afternoon for that. 

I don't see how there could be soft tissue damage since where it hurts is directly on top of the knee cap and there is no tissue there.  It's just skin over bone.  But again I didn't pay a bazillion and a half dollars to go to medical school and I do like the idea that it's not broken after all because I am hoping that means no surgery.

While I am getting lots of work done, I can't hardly stand sitting still for such long periods of time.  I am also completely over limping around and being in pain whenever I walk.  All I do know for sure is that it's not healing or improving in the slightest.  Thursday it will be three weeks since I initially did it.  I won't know anything until next week, so I will let you know when I know.

In the mean time I will be busy sewing away...until then!

Hugs, K. <3