Daughter #1 took the camera with her when she headed for JCR camp a week and a half ago and so I don't have any pictures to post from the dyeing retreat. Now that it's over I can safely say that for the first time ever I really didn't want to hostess it. Not that I didn't want to see my friends and not that I didn't want them to be here... just that I wasn't feeling up to it. For about 6 months now I've been feeling bone tired all the time and was actually quite fearful that it might be heart related. But I think that the Doctor has finally figured out what's happening with me. Just before I went to Olds I figured it was time to see a doctor about my ankle and maybe get some regular tests done to see if all was well with my blood pressure, cholesterol, and my thyroid. So I went to see the doctor two days before I headed off down to Olds. When I got back I kept thinking about my test results and wondering if anything had showed up... after two weeks of waiting to get a call from the doctor's office I had heard nothing and so I thought since our clinic is all frigged up and no one doctor is reviewing charts.... (we don't have a family doctor anymore) that maybe I should check out what had come back from the blood tests. Friday I found out that I'm anemic. I have lots of red blood cells but they are small which means that there is not enough hemoglobin to make them fat and without the iron they can't carry enough oxygen around to my body. No wonder I'm tired all the time.
I've been oh so tired.. like bone weary tired. Like put my head down and sleep all the time tired. Even doing a sink full of dishes just about kills me. And it was getting worse recently. So now /I'm taking iron supplements and it may take a week or two before I start to see a difference... but hopefully soon because I still want to just lie down and sleep all the time. So you see, when everyone arrived at my house on Friday for a joyful weekend of exuberant dyeing I was not really on the same page. I just wanted to go find a place to lay my head. But it is all over for another year... and while I was not at my best all the others seemed to enjoy it. And that's what counts. I did a little knitting but kept finding that I was making mistakes and having to pull everything out and re-knit. So then I spun for a while and I tried out my Trindleman spindle with 1/3 cashmere, 1/3 yak down, and 1/3 bamboo. It is lovely to spin on that spindle... I'm quite enraptured. We also went shopping at garage sales... I was the big winner. I came home with a rocking chair... a painting, an iron headboard and foot board, an hand woven table cloth, a lamp, a willow basket, and several pretty doilies that were hand crocheted in cotton...and in really good shape too. By Sunday there were lovely colours all over the deck. Purples, turquoise, and blue in every shade. Some had done crowded pots, and some had just dip dyed, but they all had lovely results. For the most part the weekend was a success.
I'm off to work a little on my knitting... Almost there!
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