Derry PRH POst-Op Mtg Tonight - I'll Miss You
Hello Good People,
I do hope everyone is doing well. I'm sorry to say I can't make the meeting tonight. My loss entirely. I spent the weekend with family in MA and tomorrow night is my knitting class. This is all good stuff but a disruption to my routine and so I must stay at home tonight to do the catch-up thing: groceries and food prep and a swim in my therapy pool and so on.
Man, I feel so much better! Oh, I still have some issues and even a couple of new ones. But they are so minor in comparison to my early post-op complications. I am grateful. I have been here rooting for all of you and especially our newest members. I regret not being of much real help. I'm not giving back, as they say. But I had 5 very rough months of post-op trouble and so I have 5 months of a backlog on chores and household projects and the like. I have made the most of my 6 weeks of feeling better though, you can trust me on that one! I have made hay while the sun shines, indeed.
Just setting up my new food/medication tracking device (Track3 by COHESO) has taken loads of time and I'm not quite done yet. But it is a wonderful hand-held way of keeping on target and I love it. Great product for me. I'm finding I almost always overshoot my fat gram goal and fail to come close to my carb gram goal. Interesting. I never knew I was such a fat-hound.
Well, I will miss the meeting but I'll be there in April for sure. Take good care - T
I do hope everyone is doing well. I'm sorry to say I can't make the meeting tonight. My loss entirely. I spent the weekend with family in MA and tomorrow night is my knitting class. This is all good stuff but a disruption to my routine and so I must stay at home tonight to do the catch-up thing: groceries and food prep and a swim in my therapy pool and so on.
Man, I feel so much better! Oh, I still have some issues and even a couple of new ones. But they are so minor in comparison to my early post-op complications. I am grateful. I have been here rooting for all of you and especially our newest members. I regret not being of much real help. I'm not giving back, as they say. But I had 5 very rough months of post-op trouble and so I have 5 months of a backlog on chores and household projects and the like. I have made the most of my 6 weeks of feeling better though, you can trust me on that one! I have made hay while the sun shines, indeed.
Just setting up my new food/medication tracking device (Track3 by COHESO) has taken loads of time and I'm not quite done yet. But it is a wonderful hand-held way of keeping on target and I love it. Great product for me. I'm finding I almost always overshoot my fat gram goal and fail to come close to my carb gram goal. Interesting. I never knew I was such a fat-hound.
Well, I will miss the meeting but I'll be there in April for sure. Take good care - T
Hey Kathy,
I'm in my second class and I love it. The instructor is great - just my style (highly organized and methodical). We are a cozy group of 4 women with similar learning goals and fairly similar in skill level. We started in a 5 week Basic class and quickly decided to repeat it a second time. In 4 weeks we'll all start a Beyond The Basics class for 5 weeks and then we'll do a 5 week Project Class. Along the way, we're doing a 2 Saturday class on socks. We're building skills in a logical order - increases, decreases, seaming, picking up stitches, knitting in the round, cables, socks, thumbs and so on.
Let's see - I've made 2 hats, I'm working on a vest, and I have a third hat in process as well. The third hat will be my first attempt at knitting in the round and picking up stitches. The sock classes will be my first socks ever and so on. I always attend the Wool Festival at Hopkinton Fairgrounds on Mother's Day weekend but this year I am especially looking forward to the event.
Here is a personal discovery - prior to WLS and my weight loss (which means for 25 years), I would not sit down long enough to knit to any purpose. I know now that I was operating on this assumption - I was too fat to deserve to sit down! Now this is not anything I ever felt about anyone else but I suddenly feel (post-op) I have earned the right (by having lost weight) to sit down for an hour at night. Amazing what we do to ourselves. I was in constant motion for 25 years and it never took an ounce off of my carcass but I couldn't see that. Too silly.
Great talking with you - T
I'm in my second class and I love it. The instructor is great - just my style (highly organized and methodical). We are a cozy group of 4 women with similar learning goals and fairly similar in skill level. We started in a 5 week Basic class and quickly decided to repeat it a second time. In 4 weeks we'll all start a Beyond The Basics class for 5 weeks and then we'll do a 5 week Project Class. Along the way, we're doing a 2 Saturday class on socks. We're building skills in a logical order - increases, decreases, seaming, picking up stitches, knitting in the round, cables, socks, thumbs and so on.
Let's see - I've made 2 hats, I'm working on a vest, and I have a third hat in process as well. The third hat will be my first attempt at knitting in the round and picking up stitches. The sock classes will be my first socks ever and so on. I always attend the Wool Festival at Hopkinton Fairgrounds on Mother's Day weekend but this year I am especially looking forward to the event.
Here is a personal discovery - prior to WLS and my weight loss (which means for 25 years), I would not sit down long enough to knit to any purpose. I know now that I was operating on this assumption - I was too fat to deserve to sit down! Now this is not anything I ever felt about anyone else but I suddenly feel (post-op) I have earned the right (by having lost weight) to sit down for an hour at night. Amazing what we do to ourselves. I was in constant motion for 25 years and it never took an ounce off of my carcass but I couldn't see that. Too silly.
Great talking with you - T
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