It's Always Something

What a weekend. Mostly quiet with the odd excursion for one thing or another.

After a few days of gloomy, rainy weather, Sunday turned off to be glorious. Warm, but not hot. Short sleeve weather. I went for a short walk around the cul-de-sac. Boy, was I winded! I was just getting in the hang of walking on my new knees when bad weather called a halt to it. Now, I have to start all over again. Maybe not from square 1 but close enough. I was so stiff and couldn't walk for long. One thing I've notice in the past month or so, is that I can now stand w/o any pain in my knees. A year ago, it not only would have hurt after a minute or so but I would have been in agony through the night. Now, I can stand and chat with a neighbor. Even if I don't want to chat. LOL

I mostly sewed over the weekend. As stated before, I finished the binding on the quilt for the new baby-in-the-oven. And posted pics of it. It's much cuter in person, of course. Before the quilt came, I was playing around with strips of fabric on a quilt pattern I got at Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville web site. Called Strip Twist. It took me awhile to figure out that the blocks aren't set on point. They just look that way from all the set of the quarter squares. Ingenious! I've made up about 5 of the 16" blocks and put them on the flannel wall. I find it helps to take pictures of these things when they are stuck there. Sort of giving better perspective than you get when you're working with the fabrics.

Oliva was supposed to have cheer practice yesterday afternoon (Sunday). Then, I was to pick her up and run her to East Petersburg for her first softball practice. The best laid and all that. Phyllis was to be at work at 4:30. She calle me at 3:40 in hysterics. Olivia had fallen out of a flip. Landing on her head. They wanted to take her to the hospital to be checked out. They did say that she was awake and moving everything.
I knew that mom was in no shape to be driving. I was dressed and ready to leave as I was going to Walmart before picking O up. I hopped in the car, ran by to pick Phyllis up and we trundled down to Lancaster Regional Hospital. In spite of my having to put on my shoes and pick up Phyllis, we beat the ambulance by several minutes. Phyllis was pacing in the ambulance unloading area. Of course, it took the ambulance a few minutes to get to the scene. Then, the paramedics had to take vitals. When, they took Olivia off the ambulance, she was trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Everything was immobilized. But she was alert as advertised.

We got to the hospital at 4pm. She was released at 8:45pm. I never went back to the ER room. Phyllis and Tracy, one of the coaches, were back there. I knew those rooms are small and only have 1 chair. I wasn't really needed. I sat in the waiting room filling out index cards with my NAZ for my sweepstakes entries. When I got tired of that, I read. I never leave the house w/o a book or two tucked in my purse. I did go out to the car once just for some fresh air. And Tracy made a run to Wendy's around 6:30 or so. O was starving.
They did x-rays, of course. Nothing appeared broken. The Dr. decided to order a cat scan since it was her spine. The diagnosis was that nothing was broken or bent. A bruise or sprain. She has a trip to the family Dr. this afternoon. They gave her 2 tylenol with codeine tablets last night. To be taken at home for pain.

ITM, today my rear end is sore from all the sitting around in the ER waiting room yestserday. I think I'll go for a walk and work some kinks out before I start sewing.