Since we have been home from NC life has been a little hectic.
I have been going to see a lymphedema specialist for fluid retention after my radiation.
The massage techniques I did before going helped it to all be gone.
The therapist gave me more to do.
In addition she gave me a lot of stretching exercises.
It appears that radiation can cause adhesions and make the scar hard.
It also restricts my arm movement a bit.
She said it is not uncommon for breast cancer survivors to develop rotator cuff injuries.
It seems we compensate in a way that harms our rotator cuff.
So I am learning new stretches.
They help with movement and with keeping the scar supple.
For Christmas we got our eldest daughter stuff to make sourdough bread.
She has made LOTS of bread.
She also discovered that she could make biscuits from the discard.
She brought some of the discard over the other day and I made biscuits today.
I had to take my car in to get the bumper fixed after a mild accident while I was in NC.
Finally got that back.
My regular sewing machine had to go in for service.
The cable that allowed me to use the hands free system frayed.
That meant I could not use hands free to lift the presser foot.
I didn't realize how much I used this until it was broken, sigh.
I got that back yesterday.
It's been a crazy few weeks!
I finally got in to get a haircut and highlight.
I haven't had a haircut or highlight since last summer.
It feels so much better!
I found a new slow cooker recipe for candied pecans.
Can you believe these are sugar free??
They were amazing!!
On top of all of this, I have been binding quilts as fast as I can.
It is so much easier to do the machine binding on the Bernina 770!
The LED lighting is AWESOME!
It has been raining here so no pics of the most recent bindings.
I went to bind my oldest WIP only to realize that I don't have enough of the fabric I need to make enough binding.
I am not sure of the name either so I took my best guess and placed an order.
We will see when it gets here is it is the right choice.
Fingers crossed!
~XOP~
1 comments:
Pam I always enjoy your posts. I need that recipe for the nuts, hubby loves them and doesn't need the sugar! Your treatment updates are good to read. Having just started chemo with radiation coming in the summer, I need to hear it all. Hair cut and highlights look great!
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