Good heavens, I looked up and saw that it was almost July o'clock. It has been a tough stretch for me and now that I have come out of what I realize was a couple of years of disregarding my own health, I find that I feel like my OLD SELF again. I thought that I was just getting old but with all that we have been through since the time of Prophane pushing Rod out of the corporate nest through the fixing and selling of THREE properties in the SF Bay Area, (just before the supreme slowdown) moving ourselves and my MOTHER with us to Placerville, building the second home, finally putting mom into a nursing home, seeing our daughter through a yucky divorce...is it any wonder that I was a mess?
When mom had her massive stroke in February, it was just before we left for Stitches West and my stress level got to the point where my immune system was so compromised that the spectre of Shingles surfaced. This was the beginning of Lisa Down The Rabbit Hole! The domino effect was that a tooth that had been annoying me for quite awhile began to go south, simply because the stress caused me to clench my teeth so much that I broke the only root canal tooth in my head. This whole thing began to make me sick and of course I had neglected to find a dentist up here because of well...you know...
The tooth went ballistic one Saturday and I fled to a doctor for antibiotics and pain relief and vowed that I would see that dentist that My Daughter the Dental Professional recommended. I relaxed and said that I would do it and then about three weeks later, the tooth went bad again and Rod got me in to see the dentist.
The infection, fear, anxiety and one shot of anesthetic too many sent me into a crash in the dental chair. They kept me from going into shock but I got to be picked up out of the dentist's chair and put into a flipping ambulance for a ride to the ER. It took three days to recover from that experience and I was just IN BED. I knew that I would have to go back to face the dentist and so I did, one week later. This time, I was introduced to Nitrous and the panic faded, the injections happened and the tooth was pronounced too funky to stay and so it got cut in half and removed. Did I tell you that I am now a big fan of the GAS? Never have had it and now that I have, I will never freak out in the dentist's chair again.
So, that tooth is out and the infection is gone and well, now I know who I used to be. I was sick for a couple of years, without knowing it. I have a new lease on life and a different attitude about stress.
The point is that I am actually looking forward to the July studio visit/dye day with my local fiber guild and relished a weekend visit from Brenda Patipa and her husband Milt. My family is fine and my daughter and grandson are living in their own wonderful home down the hill in a lovely suburban neighborhood, a block from a park. Things are getting better.
My mother is doing better at this point. She is allowing the aids to get her out of bed on a regular basis (the woman has been bed-ridden for over a year!) and is responding to her caregivers quite well. She has terrific help and I do not have to worry about her. We visit her and if I hear her speak, it blows my mind. She is doing better than expected and is not in pain or distress. It's all good.
Now then...The Website is moving. I have had ENOUGH of the bad service and email problems with the Canadian web host that I have had since day one. The idea of moving it seemed so daunting that like that tooth, I tried to ignore it. It became evident that this idiot guy was not dealing with things well and so we have found another web host that is just down the hill from us in Sacramento, instead of way the bleep up in CANADA! (my first web person lived there.) Holly The Web Goddess is ready to make the change on Wednesday, the 1st of July so there may be a little teensy down time when we make that change but I predict that it will be pretty seamless. This time, if the site is down, it will be because we are doing something GOOD instead of suffering at the hands of a small company too far away. :o) Hang in there with us!
We put out a newsletter today and I can only tell you that I am finally feeling well enough to be excited about going to Sock Summit in August. It seemed like something that was going to be Too Much but now I am so happy to be getting ready. We will have a new sock yarn, that I am chomping at the bit to get my hands on...BFL superwash. Firm and wonderful. Stay tuned.
I will finally feel like breaking open the "bump" of BFL Superwash top that I have been hording and get that dyed up as well. The other new fiber is a blend of merino/silk and bamboo and it is just yummy.
See? I am blogging and dyeing and not needing a nap. Hah. This is the latest and I will tease you with photos in the next installment. There are a bunch of them on my camera, just aching to get out. :o)
Life...bring it ON.
