Well, I must say my 2018 New Year did not start off well at all. I decided 1 Feb would be the beginning of my New Year. I am 3 days late in starting, but I do believe now that I am 100% back among the healthy and into the ‘sameness of routine’, as Gretchen calls it!
I call it ‘Heaven’ because the last 7 months have been Hell! I started off fairly well with some goals for January, only to have back issues that were caused by the wrong tennis shoes and THEN on the day after my last post (21 Jan) I had finished my morning walk and upon stepping up on the 2nd step with my right leg I heard a lot pop and figured I had blown my knee out. That was the beginning of 2 weeks of pure pain! Long story short – I had a Bakers Cyst in the knee! Talk about depressing and hurting! Anyway, this week I had an MRI and it took about 15 seconds for the radiologists to drain the fluid and I am up and running. Well, not running, but the knee is fine, just sore from not realizing that I have probably had that stupid cyst for a while! SO, I am now back to normal and will resume my 1.5 mile walk starting Monday! I certainly hope that I can stay healthy for a L-O-N-G while! I am surprised I completed anything during January!
In my 17 Jan Aunt Bea’s post I discussed ordering a bolt of Kaufman Premium Kona Cotton from the Fat Quarter Shop in January because I had selected the wrong fabric for Aunt Bea’s Parlor (but did not realize it before I finished tracing all 20 blocks) and received it on the 21st of January. The next morning I was going to cut off 4 yards for Aunt Baa’s only to find that a dot of lovely red dye that was on the 3 roll off the bolt and it had bled through almost 4 yards. I returned the bad bolt and ordered 2 more bolts (they were checked by the store before shipping this time) This fabric is so nice and so wonderful for embroidery projects. If you purchase a bolt of any one fabric from them you will receive a 20% off the price – I thought $6.78 was a great deal!
So now here I am on 3 Feb and I have spent the morning on cleaning out emails and catching up on Blogging. The only day for sewing this week was Friday! I am going to be another few days before complete organization of 2018 projects will be completed, but so far things really have gone great for me since 1 Feb. I have a great new house cleaner to help me twice a month and she is a very good worker! I have all body parts working again and I have no other problems with my knees – they are in good shape! Clay ordered his birthday present Thursday evening and I ordered my Valentine present – 2 more new iPad’s! They will arrive today – Apple products are great! For Christmas I purchased the iPad Pro 12.5″ and love it and now I will have one for the Studio. What more could we want?
Have a great week-end, enjoy the Super Bowl (hoping the Eagles can beat the Patriots) and do some quilting!
Chopin - A Passionate Quilter From Texas 
Goodness! May 2018, from here on out, be a year of good health and fun times for you, Nanette!
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Oh I am hoping! I am ready to get on the walking routine, but waiting until there is absolutely no discomfort in the right knee – probably pulled the hamstring. Getting better each day – at least there is no more pain! Take care!
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Nice to be following you. I am new to the HQAL group. Glad your moving forward in health with the knee almost walking ready, nothing worse for walking; had a torn a meniscus almost 2 yrs ago now, darn those knee injuries…ready to do some quilting during the game 🙂
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I have 2 small Meniscus tears. He said no repair necessary. Did you have surgery? If not maybe they will heal on their own. Thx for the comments. I thought that I had blown the knee!
Back to my 1.5 miles this morning! YEA NO pain
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Just take it slow and easy, you don’t need to set too high of goals while getting back into walking. Enjoy those new IPads, just remember, playing Spider solitaire eats up a LOT of sewing time.
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I am going to take your advice. Tomorrow is “look at the list” and select the ones that can be finished this year. New projects for 2019 also.
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I am so happy to hear that you are feeling well! Enjoy that first walk when the pain is gone, hopefully this week!
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YEA – Did a good 1.5 miles this morning and feeling fine!!!!! Onward and upward now that I can walk and stick to my diet I may lose that 10 pounds!!!!!
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I am so happy for you! No serious walking today. It was -4 when I got up, though we’ll hit 23 by mid afternoon, so maybe a jaunt with Max to the end of the cul de sac.
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Thank you, I FINALLY have my life back – and about 2 weeks ago I never thought I would be normal again!!!!! Yea 2018!
When did you say the knitting lessons start? LOL Take care
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So sorry you got that cyst. Ouch! Hope the rest of the year is painless.
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Pain all gone and am now doing my daily walk – YEA and Yea for the Eagles! Thx for commenting
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The Eagles did it!
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GO EAGLES! My ex-brother-in-law played for them in the early 1960’s. He passed from Lou Gehrigs when he was 58 – so young. Glad you loved the game!
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I think starting the new year over is a great idea! Glad you are feeling better. HMMM. Maybe starting over will help keep me up to date on my reading?
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Ha! I may have to make that 1 March….If I tried to get caught up on reading the TV’s could be sold!!!!! Hugs and have a great evening!
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