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Last week I simply forgot that I had the WAYWO diary. I had thought it was this week. Since I really didn't do much of a diary last week, I said I'd do one this week. And then life happened. Over the weekend my brother starting having heart "issues", basically atrial fibrillation. He has had 4 heart attacks. He saw his physician who sent him to the hospital. They were considering bypass surgery. A few of us weren't sure he was healthy enough for that. In the end they did angioplasty and opened up the arteries a little more and left it at that. The dr., a good person and physician, said it was good enough for now. I think he had his doubts on whether my brother could survive an open heart surgery as well. Then Saturday, my husband, NormAl1792 and I were painting trim on the house and the ladder slipped out from under Norm. He dropped 10 feet and broke his ankle.
More below on life and lessons learned.
Norm broke the tibia (shin bone), just above the talus bone which balances the leg bone over the foot. He also has contusions on his other foot and his lower back and a bad case of "roof rash" where he tried to grab at the roof to stop himself from falling. At the emergency room, they put on a temporary cast on his right foot and leg pretty much to just under the knee. We see an ankle specialist tomorrow.
So what am I working on now? Mostly taking care of Norm. He is pretty much limited to the couch just now because if the break is not displaced in any direction, he will be cast for six weeks but not need surgery. If the bone is displaced, surgery will be required and most likely pins put in to hold the bone in place.
What I've learned from this week. 1) with my brother, be glad if drs don't do everything they can just because they can. My brother is having a hard enough time recovering from angioplasty. 2) if you think something is wrong with a ladder, be more forceful in stating that. 3) Be grateful that things didn't end up a LOT worse. Norm landed in flat ground (more or less feet first), right by a raised bed with limestone rocks and not far from a 1" piece of rebar sticking up from when they did the sidewalks.
Oh, and I'm also working on a bargello throw quilt for a girlfriend. It is from the Twist and Turn Bargello book by Eileen Wright. The pattern I am doing is called Island Sunset. The image below is from quiltingboard.com.
I am taking a class at my LQS on how to do this. I am really behind in the homework of getting 4 identical colorways done. Below is my first colorway partially done. Basically you put together 4 colorways which are strips of fabric ) 1.5" in this case) sewn together longwise which then you cut them apart vertically and put them back together in the bargello pattern.
I'll keep people posted on how this works out.
What are you working on?