Update Time

Finally, after 6 months of daily injections to build my bones, I was able to schedule surgery with my neurosurgeon last Monday. It'll be another 5 weeks before it happens but the doctor assures me that surgery will finally happen!

During the night last Monday, Ray had a coughing spell. He's not sick or anything just a tickle in the throat. He evidently irritated some nerves in his back and leg from coughing so hard. He's having great difficulty moving and walking. He saw the doctor today (Thursday) and hopefully his meds kick in soon. (Just what this house needed - another old decrepit person 😉🙃🙃)

My days have become very predictable - lots of sleep. One way I deal with pain is to sleep and some of my meds make me sleepy so I nap a lot! If we do something, it takes a day or more to recover. Needless to say, I don't accomplish much. Now that Ray is out of commission for a bit, life could get interesting but most likely, meals will be simple, clothes won't be washed, and cleaning won't be done. We'll survive!

I haven't sewn much; in fact most days, I don't get upstairs to the studio. I had a pile of donation quilts though. Since I couldn't donate quilts to the children's hospital yet, due to COVID, we took 30 quilts to the Ronald McDonald house when we were in Madison on Monday. I think there are 3 quilts left on the donation pile upstairs. 

Thirty quilts ready to go:

I donated 

1st pile of quilts

2nd pile of quilts

3rd pile of quilts

The quilts from 2019 are:                                         

I Scream You Scream

Scrappy Trip Around the World 

Jenny's Flower Garden Too 

                                                                                        

From 2020:                                                                     

Crosswalks 

Six Degrees South North of the Equator    

Batik Bowties

Strings with Navy

Crazy Cars

Orphan Improv

Courthouse Steps

Flannel Baby Squares

Black/White with Teal

Blue with Yellow Jelly roll Race

Migration I

Migration II

Paint

Teal and White

Tiny Log Cabins

Scrappy Blue

Colored Strings

Pink Puppies

Basketweave Strings

From 2021:

Awesome Aspens

B/W with Red  

Diamonds with Squares

Easy Breezy

Pathways to Friendship

Magic Squares

Little Squares

The I Spy Tree

For the next 5 weeks I will try to help around the house, go to what seems like a zillion doctor appointments, work on staying healthy, and probably nap! And just maybe I'll find a little time to sew.