The past couple of months have been really hard for me ...In November last year, the cardiologist found that I had a severe narrowing of the artery on my heart's right side.
At last, an answer to what was causing me all sorts of drama... one of the biggest issues was walking. I could not walk more than about 10 meters before I had to stop and sit. I went into the hospital this past Friday and had a stent put in my heart ... and boy can I tell the difference... Wednesday afternoon when hubby and I went for a walk ...he called it my daily exercise. I just laughed.. lol ... what a joke all that was turning out to be... I got to just the other side of our neighbour's yard .. and I had to go home ... I was absolutely useless ... I could not even stand to cook dinner ... I sat on a bar stool .. .. I was getting rather anxious about it all ... Then ... Low and Behold .. they rang me last Monday and said they had a spot for me Friday 27th, could I do that?.... oh yes please ... what a relief ...
We had to be at the hospital by 8. I went into the theatre at 12:10 and it took an hour before I was out .... they had problems with my veins or artery or something ... nothing ever goes smooth with me ... ahh ... I just keep them on their toes... lol ... But everything was great, and no issues getting me back up and running normally... well as normal as a Bobbie can be..lol ..I put my feet up and rested pretty much all Saturday.
My hubby and I went for a walk Sunday night, and I managed to walk around 800 meters ... and that is a huge difference to the 15 I did a couple of days ago ... woohoo .. ... I did have to stop and have a breather though .. but I did not have to sit .. hubby said I did really good and he was really proud of me ... I am just doing what I can ... it has been a very long time since I could walk like this ... everything was just getting slowly worse as time passed ... but it took an hour of my time in theatre... and 4 hours in recovery.. just to make sure I was ok to leave the hospital ... we did have to stay in a motel on Friday night because we live 50 kilometers from the hospital and I needed to stay within 20 minutes of the ER in case something happened to me overnight .... but it was all good .. and I cannot believe the difference ... I cooked dinner without a stool... I folded a basket of laundry ... there is another sitting on the table waiting for me to fold it up and put it away ... yeah ... it can wait ... if we need anything out of it .. it can be accessed without too much drama ... haha ...
I did some clearing of mess in the sewing room ... hubby would like for me to downsize my fabric before we do our big move in June ... but I told him I really don't want to get rid of very much because the price of the fabric like everything else has gone up in price so much ... and he understands that, so I can keep what I know I can use ... .. umm I can use all of it .. silly man... haha ... ...
He went out and purchased about 4 boxes of large zip lock bags to pack my fabric into so it will all go in boxes and be safe if the box gets busted or wet ... .. so wow ... He truly surprised me ...
he did ask if I have any UFOs that I might not ever get finished .. (well, I certainly can never answer that question .. ever). lol.
and if I possibly did, would I consider selling them ... it would be something we didn't have to find storage for I guess... there are a few quilt tops that I planned for some of the grandkids .. but I was somewhat slow in getting them done the kids had sort of outgrown the themes of them ... these were for their first big bed, so really they are nothing too flash a couple of rail fence about Throw size I guess. I think I may have made them around the time I had the stroke .. so, I reckon they could go ... and some panels .. and I sorted all my charm packs ... and found that I have 22 of them ... I thought I had maybe 5 ...
Because apparently, I am a hoarder ... Ummm, No I am not !!! .. I am a quilter .... thank you very much!!!! Silly man ...
there are possibly, maybe some FQs (just maybe) and a pile of magazines .. they cost too much to mail, I think, but someone might like them... I will get rid of them I hope even if I give them away .. if not, I may just have to take them with us .... at this point I am taking everything I can... I need a new machine but this one will have to last me a little longer ... not real long ... just a little bit ... and I will be taking it and my small machine... and the overlocker.
I know I will be able to catch up on so much this month .. including my block swaps ... I can actually walk now .. and breathe too.. and stand for a good length of time. And it's only been 4 days ... it is incredible. God truly is so good. I wonder how I will be next week .. I do hope to be walking a little further with no stops, and be able to fold a full line of laundry and maybe even do some ironing ... but what I would really love to be able to do is get the house tidied up enough in the mornings to spend the rest of the day in the sewing room ...
My legs would not hold me up, and I had no energy ... Probably because no good blood was getting to my body ... even my mind was in a fog ... ... one of my big toes was going purple all the time ... I have diabetes type 2 ... so that was a bit on the scary side .. one thing I need is my toes .. lol ... gee I need all my bits and pieces ... I have had them all a long time now and have really gotten used to them ...
So, I would like to keep them please ...unless of course, they are trying to kill me .... then I don't want them ... like the bowel cancer, the hospital surgeon discovered I had... I told her, to remove whatever she needed to .. unless I really needed it to stay alive to watch all my grandchildren have some great-grandchildren for me ... ... and so she did ... she took what was going to kill me and left me with all the things that were essential to keep on keeping on .. ...
I had gotten used to it and was kinda fond of the bit she removed... but it's ok ... I was given a sort of exterior replacement, which does a fantastic job ... I would not be without it ...
and a few of my Grandchildren have been sort of busy making babies .. ... 9 great-grandchildren so far .. .. from 9 years old down to 14 months ... 17 left to start reproducing.
I am truly so very blessed ...
