Last Wednesday I had sinus surgery. It was a day surgery where they cleaned out my sinuses, straightened a deviated septum, narrowed some bone in my nose to alleviate some of the allergic reactions I have, and removed a bone spur.
Each hospital personnel who entered my room for the first time commented on my list of things I’m allergic to. It doesn’t build confidence when the anesthesiologist asks what does work for me. Shouldn’t he know options?
Fortunately, everything went smoothly. The surgery was successful and I was home and tucked into my recliner before too long. Thursday and Friday were uncomfortable but Vicki was around to bug me and make me drink but let me sleep. I accomplished almost nothing for those three days.
Monday I had the stents taken out. I was told by someone it was extremely painful so I was a little apprehensive. I was pleasantly surprised when it was nothing more than slightly (very slightly) uncomfortable.
I left the doctor’s office being able to breath which was very nice. I came home and wrote. My afternoon was spent at my computer working on the next Wayfarer novel. Tuesday I was supposed to meet up with my niece but she couldn’t meet so I slept late, got up and dressed and sat down to the computer again. I spent four hours working on the Wayfarer novel. I’m two or three scenes from being done, drawing the final plot lines together, making them solidify into a really good (I hope) conclusion for this group of plot lines.
Wednesday I came back to work. I expected to be over tired and grumpy by the end of the day. I certainly didn’t want to fall back into the work day routine but it was nice to see my faculty and student worker. It was good to get out of the house and my head.
I’ve been working on my basket patterns. I wrote them more than a year ago and never got around to publishing them. I was less than happy with the pictures I had. While I was off, I went through the patterns, edited them (thankfully) and I’m down to half a one left. Once I get the last one done tonight, I’ll work on pictures – hopefully better than the last one. I’ll do a few group pictures and individual ones. I think the baskets will be a pamphlet, though I do have a couple places I may want to submit them to in an attempt to get them published.
Once the baskets are done, I have a bunch of fleece I want to get made up. A few pieces I’ll be keeping but most I’ll be setting aside for the sale we’re having next month. Once I’m through those pieces, I’m going to look at the themes for the crochet magazines and see if there’s anything which inspires me.