Finally, warm weather for more than one day. It's 23C right now, with the forecast for tomorrow for 27C. Maybe the garden will grow something besides dandelions.
Not much knitting to report. The surgery for the carpal tunnel problem on my left wrist was done on Tuesday, June 9. I'm healing nicely and able to use the computer keyboard and drive my car.
Of course there is a little story to be told about my day trip to the hospital. While I was lounging in my pre-op bed, the (male) nurse warned me when I was given the freezing needle for my wrist, it would "burn". Um, hello?! It did more than burn. It hurt like hell, and felt like an electric shock to the ends of my fingers. The anesthetist jabbed me THREE times with that needle from hell. Then he has the gall to rub my legs and tell me "everything will be all right". I guess this idiot needs a course on inappropriate touching. I almost decked him right there.
Next little story... I was supposed to stay overnight, but it would be over my dead body. I was able to leave 3.5 hours after the operation. The nurses in the ward searched high and low for prescription orders for me (like maybe for Tylenol 3 for pain?). No dice. They phoned wherever one phones to find out. Nope, nada. I stayed at my sister's for 2 days then drove home. That afternoon (3 days later) a nurse from the hospital phones wondering why I didn't take the two prescriptions with me. Say what? I'm positive she thought I was going to spend ANOTHER $20 in gas to come get them. GAH. Upshot of the whole thing; she faxed them to my pharmacy in the city and Ken picked them up on his way to work that night. Here's the kicker; one of the scripts was for an antibiotic that I should have been taking for three days already. The other one was for the T3s, which I've taken sparingly, but they've come in handy a couple of times.
I'm going to try knitting today and see how I make out.
I've done some weeding in the garden as well as planting up two pots for either side of the arbour. The pots will fill in and be quite colourful in a few weeks. I planted a hop vine, licorice vine, a trailing yellow flower (forgot the name) and a hot pink calibrachoa.
The artemesia in one corner of the garden seems happy:
The last picture is of the Alliums that are not quite in full bloom yet:
Ahh, those last two pictures finally loaded.
This was a lovely summer day today. Send more.
Get well soon!
Posted by: Lynne | June 15, 2009 at 05:11 PM
You showed great restraint in not decking the nurse. Hope you're knitting like your demon-self soon.
Like the flowers too!
Posted by: anne | June 16, 2009 at 05:00 AM