So my week has looked a lot like this, with every day spent at the hospital getting daily infusions of immunoglobulin. It's a gold star treatment, costing around £10,000, so I feel very fortunate to be given it. Fingers crossed it will get things under control. Having a cannula made it challenging to knit, but I did manage to do a little. It created much interest amongst the nurses and other patients and they were all intrigued in what I was doing.
At the start of the week, my plain vanilla sock (using one of Stylecraft's Head over Heels sock yarns) looked like this ...
And by Friday it looked like this ...
And then on Saturday, it looked like this ...
I'd had to change the way I knit whilst I had the cannula in, and that affected the tension of my knitting. Having already knit the first sock, the second was for a person with a much smaller foot! So with much cursing, I had to frog the second sock back to the cuff. It's all ready for my trip down to King's College Hospital in London this week - perfect train knitting whilst listening to an audio book. Tension hasn't really been an issue for me until now, so I'm glad it was discovered on something relatively small! Have you had any tension disasters? xxx
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Oh, get well soon!
No tension disasters of the knitting kind here yet; lucky it was a sock rather than a jumper! Gosh, expensive treatment - fingers crossed that it gets things under control. Enjoy your train knitting. xx
oooo knitting with a canula, that sounds sore. Hope your treatment works. CN x
I’ve never had any of the problems you are experiencing, tension, canola, hospital treatment, I am very fortunate, I have made the mistake of knitting one sock bigger than the other though, I put that down to my own stupidity. Hope your treatment is going well and you feel better really soon.
I've had a few,mainly because I'm not good at checking it to start with! Squares on a KAL designed by different people are usually where I fall down. I'll learn one day maybe. Hope the treatment works for you. Fingers crossed.
Funnily enough I am struggling with a cardigan at the moment. Despite tension squares I have had to frog it a couple of times. I cannot knit much these days which makes it worse I think as I lose track of where I had got to with it everytime I pick it up.
I was thinking of you last month as I ran the York 10 mile race. It was thanks to you that I heard about parkrun and as a result joined a running club, I am very grateful for this as I have made so many friends. It is important to me as I cannot knit much these days since I had a frozen shoulder three years ago. If I spend too much time knitting my shoulder tends to get painful for several days afterwards. I must be one of the few people who has taken up running because they cannot knit! I remember when you ran the York 10 miles a couple of years back and could never, at that time, imagine running that far myself. I also remember the circumstances in which you ran it which made it an even greater achievement for you.
I hope that you are feeling better soon Helen and that the treatment that you are going through is not too unpleasant.
Best wishes
Jane
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