Thank Goodness it’s Friday, an Update on Mom, Wisp of a Shawl Delivered, and Another Happy Slipper Customer

I can’t even tell you how happy I am that it’s Friday and the weekend is almost here. In a way it seems like the week flew by and then again the first part of the week went slowly; mainly Monday. We had quite a scare with my Mom; I received several messages from my sister Jackie telling me that she had went to help Mom with paperwork and found that she had passed out two times along with diarrhea and vomiting (3 side effects listed on the Cipro information). Jackie made an appointment to see Mom’s regular doctor to check her over after the ER visit from the kidney infection she had on Saturday night. They went to the doctor around 4:00 pm and the doctor checked her all over and sent her home. Jackie left Mom and 30 minutes later my nephew Jarred found her passed out in her recliner and he called 911. The ambulance came and took her to the St. Theresa’s hospital and after checking her all over for possible heart attack or stroke; the tests came back negative. All they could figure out is that she had a bad reaction to the antibiotic that the ER had prescribed for her kidney infection. They changed her medication from Cipro to Bactrim and they kept her over night to make sure she didn’t have any more fainting spells. I’m happy to report that Mom came home from the hospital the next day and has not had any more episodes of fainting. I am so grateful to Jarred for his quick response to Mom’s dilemma, to Angie who takes such good care of Mom with her medical knowledge, and for Jackie who is so smart with helping Mom with all of her finances and paperwork. I love you all and appreciate all that you do for Mom/Grandma. I have called her every day since she got out of the hospital and to me she seems more confused than she did on Sunday when I left her house. Last night she didn’t know if I knew about her being in the hospital, although I was right there with her along with Angie and Jackie. I asked her if she would like to go to dinner at Cracker Barrel on Friday night with John and me. She said that it sounded like a good idea and that she would write it down, usually she says that she is going to write it down but never does. So I told her to get a pen and she tried to write down 5:30 and she wrote 5:50. She laughed and said that the stuff that she writes down sometimes doesn’t make any sense to anyone else and that she has to laugh about it because she can’t do anything about it. Anyway, I love this picture of Mom and Jarred that I took on Sunday.

Now on to the crochet front…..I finished the curly fringe shawl that is named Wisp of a Shawl for my dear friend Terry.

This is her reaction when she first saw the shawl; she said that she had tears in her eyes.

Of course I had to get some pictures of her outside and I love how the colors of the yarn striped and I especially love all those curly fringes.

Terry also ordered a slouchy hat and I had enough yarn to make a cowl as well.

I’m so glad that she couldn’t resist buying the cowl too, because I think she looks adorable in both of them. Don’t you?

I also got an order for a pair of slippers from Tim who does contract maintenance where I work. It was funny because I showed him the pair of slippers that I was sending to my nephew Jacob and he just about fell over. He proceeded to tell me that he had moved from an apartment to an old house that wasn’t insulated well and how he had been looking for slippers to keep his feet warm while walking on his cold floors. I told him to try on the slippers and I would make him a pair that fit him. So he placed his order on Friday and I made one sole for him to step on to see if it was the right size and then this morning I made the other one, put the grippy stuff on the bottom, made half of the top half of one slipper before heading off to work. Then finished that one up and completed the second one on my lunch break.

Then I called Tim and he stopped by to try on his slippers and Oh my gosh his smile is priceless to me. As he tried them on he told me how nice and cozy they felt and I told him they were like a hug for his feet. And I also told him that they looked like they were made just for him. He laughed as he knew that they had been made especially for him. 😉 Anyway, thank you so much for allowing me to share my life with all of you and for always being here. I hope all of you have a wonderful Friday and weekend.