Progress?

Saturday I was so encouraged by my Honey's progress.  Should have thought twice.  Sunday we had a bump in the road.  He started to swell and had a couple of other complications.  We are the most fortunate folks.  Our next door neighbor, Diane, is a visitng Nurse, aka "Angel".  She has been so helpful.  I have been able to do everything he needed except I could not stick a needle into his belly.  Just could not do it. Honey has done it before but when you are right-handed and your right arm is semi functioning, it's a problem to stick a needle into your belly.  Enter Diane.  She has been a wonder, coming over every day at 9 and 9 to give him a shot.  She also helped with the dressings giving me hints to make ripping tape off a little easier on him.  She also has been bringing him treats every day!  A different kind of cookie each day.  He's lovin it.  Hope he doesn't get used to it - 'cause that's not my specialty.

So I called in Sunday nite and got the on-call Resident in Plastic Surgery.  He talked us through it and said to call Monday.  Dutifully I called this AM and they got us in this afternoon; examined him and explained what was going on.  So we feel a little better and know that this is part of the healing process.  We will get back to where we were and hopefully move forward.

In the meantime, Rae-Ann and Janice have been wonderfully volunteering their time to keep the shop running.  They've been doing such a great job I might stay home a little longer, hahahaha!  Barring any more 'bumps' I plan to start coming in for a few (2-3) hours at a time until Honey can be on his own.  Not to tell tales out of school but when you can't use your right arm much and have a drain tube hanging down on the right - we laughingly call it the grenade 'cause that's what it looks like - it's kinda hard to drop your drawers to go to the bathroom!  So I've been wearing my "Nursie" uniform and doing the deed, lol!!!!  It's getting better now and he can do it by himself. Reminds me of when my son was little and we went thru potty training, sorta.

Anyway, not much knitting time but I did manage to finish my "Nougat" cowl in Zauberwolle in the blues shade.  Hope to get a picture and give the proper credit soon.

Hope to see you all soon!