… you can write a grocery list.
… you can download five songs onto iTunes.
… you can forgive someone.
… you can change your clothes three times, shoes twice.
… you can eat a cup of Tiramisu from Porto’s.
… you can walk to the mailbox and remember the smells of spring mixed in with the scent of night.
… you can imagine what a skein of yarn may become.
… you can finish a knit sweater that’s been awaiting a good wash and warm blocking.
… you can tell three people and one cat “good night”.
… you can collect all the cups and trash around the house.
… you can make extensive plans for the next couple of weeks. *
February Lady Sweater
Dream In Color Classy: Chinatown Apples
Needles: 7’s
Mods: I was working with three lighter skeins and two darker ones so I worked the darker skeins into the yoke and bands. Ended up with about a 1/2 skein. Knit only two button holes, (still looking for the perfect buttons).
* I will be away from this space for at least two weeks. My Dr. has decided I’m a good candidate for ECT and I will be staying at Cedars-Sinai while participating in their inpatient treatment. While I know this is a very controversial treatment I also know that this is something I must do. Prozac, Lithium, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Klonopin, Ativan, Depakote, Seroquel, Geodon, Effexor, Abilify, Navane, Zoloft, Paxil, Remeron… I have tried them all. This is truly my last option. And with the research I have done, there is one thing I have now.
Hope.
Take care of yourselves until I get back. And thank you, for giving me hope.
19 Comments
05/02/2009 at 5:07 pm
Glad you have hope. Wishing you all the best for your treatment. Lina x
05/02/2009 at 6:53 pm
I’ll be thinking of you
j
05/03/2009 at 5:49 am
Good luck, for some people, ECT is a miracle.
05/03/2009 at 7:52 pm
Beautiful post, as always! And great work on the FLS — love the colorway you chose. DIC is the perfect yarn for that project.
And all the best in treatment. I’ll be thinking of you — and sending hope as well!
xoxo
05/03/2009 at 11:18 pm
in one moment…you will be back…feeling so much better
05/04/2009 at 2:46 am
Found your blog through ravelry, and I am hopeful for you.
05/04/2009 at 12:33 pm
xx
05/04/2009 at 8:39 pm
I need to make me one of these sweaters, very pretty.
05/05/2009 at 12:33 am
beautiful sweater and a beautiful outlook! i’ll be thinking of you. rest, be well.
05/05/2009 at 11:46 am
Take care of you. I wish you well!
05/06/2009 at 7:25 pm
Just catching up on blogs – wishing you well. I’ll be praying for you. I’m sending lots of hugs your way.
05/07/2009 at 9:24 am
take much care.
05/08/2009 at 11:57 pm
Beautiful sweater AJ!
Please do take good care of yourself! I will be sending many good thoughts your way that this new treatment works for you and restores your life and health to all that it should be
Keep us posted! Much love & many hugs…… -M
05/10/2009 at 8:26 am
Beautiful project. I wish you well with the treatment.
05/17/2009 at 8:29 pm
One moment can be so productive. I love your sweater. I have seen a number of bloggers working on that pattern and it seems that it looks wonderful for most people – must be a really excellent pattern. I really like the color on yours – very spring-like.
06/05/2009 at 8:26 am
thinking of you.
still.
hugs.
06/05/2009 at 8:27 am
and yes. i hope you have worn your gorgeous fls MANY times in the past days.
xx
07/01/2009 at 1:39 am
Hey – just thinking of you and checking in to see how things are going. Hope all is OK with you – hugs!
08/06/2009 at 10:04 pm
I am also severely bipolar…fun, isn’t it?
Have you tried Lamictal? It has turned out to be my miracle drug.