I'm off on quilt retreat tomorrow morning, I'm really looking forward to going. We'll be heading to a house that has been equipped with quilters and scrapbookers in mind, it's on the shores of Lake Cavannaugh (I think I spelt that wrong!), it's not far from Mount Vernon, WA, but it's well off the beaten track too, I love it that we can get really out into the wild without travelling too far!
I'm not sure what I will work on, my shoulder is very troublesome right now so I don't know how much it will tolerate, I'm going to pack a few different things, including hand stitching, so I can play with what it tolerates most. I don't know how well my body will cope in general, I'm mending from hurting my neck 2 weeks ago, but still get some unpleasant symptoms very easily, I'm hoping the journey will be ok, it would be really hard to feel progressively worse as we travel - we'll take it slowly, visiting a few quilt shops on the way, then have to unload and set up. I've planned a couple of small things that aren't really quilting, a bag and a couple of cushion covers, that should be easy to complete and give me a sense of actually getting something done! I'll also be taking a few non sewing things so I shouldn't get bored, I'll need to be disciplined and rest in the middle of each day lieing down.
Here's the catch, I haven't actually packed yet! With medical appointments and other activities to help me get on my feet again, I've not had much time at home where I'm actually on my feet and getting stuff done - I've got food organised on the kitchen counter ready to go into a bag or box, so I won't starve (it's a way up a dirt road apparently, so once we're there, we're not going anywhere to get any extra food!). I did make a partial list, but it's far too partial, I just checked it and I didn't get as far as writing down "sewing machine", oops!
I just got the results from my shoulder MRI and it showed nothing, I suppose this should be good news, but the signs pointing to something that should have shown up on the MRI were pretty strong, so even though finding there was something specific that would probably need surgery wouldn't have been good news, I'm still stuck with a very painful shoulder and no clear path of treatment, I've already been doing PT for 6 weeks, with good results on other stuff that we also needed to work on, but no progress at all on this and the way I understand things from talking to her, with the symptoms I'm having, we'd do the same stuff to attempt to avoid surgery as we would to try and help if there wasn't anything that might need surgery, which is what we've been doing and that hasn't been helping! So I'm feeling low about that and needing reassurance that she does have more tricks up her sleeve, but with retreat, I don't see her again until Tuesday, I wish my doctor hadn't been so efficient in phoning the results today!
Oh well, I need to get packing now!
Anne