Christmas Stockings - Step 2

First, let me say thank you to everyone who has been praying for my Mom . . . I am guardedly saying she is doing better . . . she has had 4 good days in a row . . . and we're hoping it will continue . . .

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Some of the feeling on her right side has come back a little . . . and she is able to say a word here and there now . . . her mind seems to have cleared considerably . . . the doctors are saying they think she is on the right track now . . . but we're all still praying and keeping our fingers crossed that she will not have anymore setbacks . . .

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we know we're looking at several months of rehab if she can just continue the way she has the last few days . . . so please keep praying . . . we need all the help we can get . . .

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now the stockings . . . my nerves are finally not as bad as they have been the last 6 weeks . . . so I'm trying to get back to some sewing . . . this is the 2nd step for the stockings . . . I've traced the outline of the stocking onto the EPP piece . . . cut it out . . . and ironed it onto a piece of iron on batting . . . now I need to quilt them all before I sew them to the backings, make the linings, and add the cuffs . . .

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so far I have 9 large ones to do . . . and 4 small ones . . . and I really want to make at least 3 more large ones . . .

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stay tuned !

Sad News . . .

things have been nuts for the past 3 weeks . . . and they are not going well . . .

Mom had her surgery for the colostomy on Oct. 13 . . . on Oct. 15 she began to have kidney failure and they did a procedure to put in tubes . . . on Oct. 16 she had a small heart attack . . .

On Oct. 17 she began to slowly improve . . . very slowly . . . that Friday and Saturday she had 2 great days and they were beginning to think she was turning the corner . . . Sunday a.m. she was doing even better . . . I talked with her and the nurse . . . and then left home to head in to see her . . .

10 minutes into the trip I got a call from the hospital that she had just had a stroke . . . I called everyone and we all went in . . . they did a CAT scan and found a blood clot on her brain . . . also paralyzed on her right side and unable to speak . . . so they went in to try to remove it but they were unable to do so . . . the doctor said he was able to break it up somewhat and now they are hoping the body will take over and continue to break it up . . .

over the last few days she seems to be slowly improving . . . she has a little movement on her right side now . . . but still cannot talk . . . although she is trying very very hard . . .

it is just so so sad . . . she has always been so vibrant . . . nobody ever guessed her age to be 81 . . . she lived alone . . . took care of herself . . . drove wherever she wanted to go . . . just an amazing woman . . .

now to watch her trying to communicate . . . and being so frustrated . . . it just breaks my heart . . .

it seems it's just been one thing after another . . . the surgery for the colostomy went great . . . and there was no reason she shouldn't have recovered just fine . . . but I guess her 81 year old body thinks otherwise . . .

they are hoping to have her moved to a rehab facility within the next week . . . we're hopeful they will be able to help her to recover and regain what she has lost . . .

please keep praying for a good recovery . . . and thank you all so much . . .