My Sister's Visit

This is my sister Janice. I haven't seen her in over ten years! The last time she came to Oklahoma, she got a tattoo. I got one shortly after she left. I would have got mine at the same time but didn't have my sketch completed. We went to Derby, Kansas for our tattoos so I'm really glad it's finally legal in OK. I plan to get another one to celebrate getting through all this big C stuff.

As you can see, she has made a couple of dishclothes (boy, I had to keep reminding her "When you knit them they are NOT dish RAGS!!!) And can you believe it's 5:30 am! I tell you, I didn't look this good!

She hasn't knitted in years but wanted to try it again. So I started her out on an easy dishcloth - which she finished in record time. Next she tried a DW dishcloth. She wasn't as taken with it as some of us are.

And I finally found someone to take the enterlac bag off my hands. She actually like the colors and was thrilled to take it home. The other thing she really wanted was a felted purse. So we made a run to GY and she picked up some Cascade 220 so I could knit and felt her a clutch type purse. I'll be adapting the Lopi bag and the purse from the front of the enterlack bag book, kind of morphing them into a single purse. She picked some nice colors, a light sage green and a darker green for the contrasting stripe. It should look very nice.

But after the second dishCLOTH, she decided she really wanted to knit a scarf. I had shown her my Emily scarf and she just loved it. So back to GY, where she told me she was allergic to wool. So what is as soft as wool but not wool? ALPACA!

She found some gorgeous, tweedy looking alpaca and decided that was what she wanted. We found her some size 13 needles and started trying stitch swatches. She was still working out the stitch when she called to let me know she made it home okay. There is nothing like having another family member who knits!

And the steroid reduction plan kind of hit a snag. Last Thursday my dr dropped me down to 1/2 a prednesone tablet (10 mg) and I was fine for about one day. Then on Saturday I started having some really unusual symptoms - all I wanted to do was sleep, I wasn't one bit hungry (I liked this one), and my knees were really giving me fits when I did get up. Jim did some checking on the internet and it appeared I was having some pretty strong indicators of adreanal instability. So I took another 1/2 of a prednesone and within half an hour felt fine.

I see my dr tomorrow and will see what he says. It's extremely frustrating sometimes. But I have hair long enough to actually feel. GI's still have hair longer than mine but at least you can kind of see it. I seem to have a bald spot right up front and since I'm not looking forward to wearing a toupe the rest of my life, that spot better fill in!