a couple of things I've made lately...

I made this card for the daughter of a friend on Facebook... she was hoping to make her daughters birthday extra special... as it may be her last! I think she got over 400 cards by the time her birthday arrived!

Then I picked up my crochet hook again and some wool, I use Sirdar Calico, mostly because it crochets up nicely but its looks good too. Anyway, there I was crocheting away when Mr Wonderful asks what I was making... "Dunno yet!" says me... Tj said she wanted a beanie!! I was planning on a beret.. so anyway it's a beanieberet! and here it is being modelled by the owner...

This is how I think it should be worn but wearers wear the hat the way the want don't they!!

Thanks for dropping by and ooh today some goodies arrived that I'd ordered to make beads with, now I just have to find a pasta machine to roll out the clay! Bye for now Lisa x

Is it this or is it that?

Dear Human Being,

Hi, my name is Fibromyalgia, and I’m an invisible chronic illness. I am now ‘velcroed’ to you for life. Others around you can’t see me or hear me, but YOUR body feels me. I can attack you anywhere and anyway I please. I can cause severe pain, or if I am in a good mood, I can just cause you to ache all over.

Remember when you and Energy ran around together and had fun? I took Energy from you and gave you Exhaustion. Just try to have fun now! I also took Good Sleep from you and in its place gave you Fibro Fog (a.k.a.) Brain Fog. I can make you tremble internally or make you feel cold or hot when everyone else feels normal. Oh yeah, I can make you feel anxious or depressed, too. If you have something planned, or are looking forward to a great day, I can take that away too. You didn’t ask for me. I chose you for various reasons: that virus you had that you never quite recovered from, or that car accident, or childbirth, ...
the death of a loved one, or maybe it was those years of abuse and trauma. Well, anyway, I’m here to stay! I hear you’re going to see a doctor who can get rid of me. I’m ‘ROFL’ (rolling on the floor laughing)! Just try! You will have to go to many, many doctors until you find one who can help you effectively. In fact, you’ll see many doctors who tell you ‘it’s all in your head’ (or some version of that). If you do find a doctor willing to treat this ‘non-disease’, you will be put on pain pills, sleeping pills, and energy pills. You will be told you are suffering from anxiety or depression, given a TENS unit, told if you just sleep and exercise properly, I will go away. You’ll be told to think positively, poked, prodded, and most of all, you will not be taken seriously when you cry to the doctor how debilitating life is for you every single day!

Your family, friends, and coworkers will all listen to you until they just get tired of hearing about how I make you feel, and that I’m a debilitating disease. Some of them will say things like “Oh, you’re just having a bad day”, or “Well, remember, you can’t expect to do the things you used to do 20 years ago,” not hearing that you said “20 DAYS ago”! Some will just start talking behind your back, while you slowly feel that you are losing your dignity, trying to make them understand, especially when you are in the middle of a conversation with a ‘normal’ person, and can’t remember what you were going to say next!

In closing, you’ve probably figured out that the ONLY place you will get any real support and understanding in dealing with me is with Other People with Fibromyalgia! They are the only ones that will understand your complaints of unrelenting pain, insomnia, fibro fog, the inability to perform the everyday tasks that ‘normal people’ take for granted.

Remember, I’m stuck to you like Velcro – and I expect we’ll be together for the rest of your life.

as written by Lacey 777 

The long and winding road

A few months ago I finally got the courage to go to my GP with my list of ills................ she was great and arranged blood tests and x-rays for my appointment at an out of town hospital... Myself & Husband duly went along to see a really good Doc... after an hour long appointment where we discussed the 2 surveys that we filled out prior to the appointment then Doc says that she cannot confirm that I have CFS/ME due to the many other issues I have that can cause fatigue and pain... ( IBS, Under Active Thyroid, Osteoarthritis in both hips, a couple of prolapsed discs in the lumbar region which of course in turn triggered the Chronic Sciatica... there are quite a few other things too that you all probably have or know of....) So less than two weeks later this letter arrives saying I'm being referred to the sleep clinic because she thinks the reason for the fatigue is sleep apnoea!!! Then this morning I get a call from a lady ringing to arrange an appt for me at a hospital in the Gloucestershire area then.... she realises she has all my details but the name on her screen isn't mine!! but all the other details are ?? She then apologises profusely and laughingly tells me to forget the phone call! on top of that I get a letter in the post from the physio dept telling me to go for physio later this month!! Physio?? It takes me all the time to get up and go downstairs which is why I spend a lot of the day upstairs in our home....Thank goodness for my wonderful wonderful darling husband and great kids and my sister and brother-in-law and my parents-in-law... Oh and my husbands fantastic boss who understands our situation which started off with me going to our the GP and he diagnoses me with a suspected cauda equina lesion/syndrome (he does tell me that he really hopes he's wrong but better be safe than sorry) this is way back in June 2010 and being sent to a local hospital who then refused to do an MRI because they felt it wasn't necessary then me returning back to the then GP still in a heck of a lot of pain, who insisted I have an MRI so arranged one for me on a Sunday morning at another hospital!.... nice understanding staff? Not!! pushed me down and pulled my arms up because and I quote "you're too fat to go thru the MRI so your arms have to go straight above your head..." at this point I realised I was a sufferer of claustrophobia!!! and get all panicky but then succeeded to calm myself down and go thru the MRI which I was told would take 10-15 minutes but it turns out is it more like 35 to 40 minutes..Arms/shoulders very sore and back is feeling so bad I feel faint... anyway this GP then moved on to another surgery and I started to see a lady GP which is the one I have now but she is only available on Thurs & Fridays... the rest of the week its take pot luck if you get one of the other docs who are 4 ladies and 1 gent, Two of the ladies are great, One is absolutely pathetic and puts every illness I have down to my weight... and the Gent doc I've yet to see but my husband took my daughter in for an appt and he was very off with an emotional teenage girl.... so he his on my list of GPs to avoid along with the lady doc previously mentioned.... So, now I guess I am on the long journey of seeing all the different available consultants until someone comes up with the suggestion that was given to me by a friend who is a GP!! Will I finally be diagnosed with CFS/ME or Fibromyalgia? and how many hospitals/clinics can I visit... ha ha ha ha ha ha, gotta keep smiling

:D


L x

Sometimes you see something and you love it straightaway ;-D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/theweekinpictures/9574584/The-week-in-pictures-28-September-2012.html?frame=2353645

I'm fancying some more masks of late and have spotted some new designs by the talented Ali Reeve.

From top to bottom they are Celtic Border, Choir Border, Elegance Border, Filmstrip Border, Ivy Border and lastly Music Border.... Now the decision is why to get first? after I have gotten the 5 sets of mini masks!!

bye for now

L :-D

When you can't sleep....

If you can bead em, join em :-D I couldn't sleep last night so I made 2 symmetrical seed bead necklaces and some earrings too

 Bye for now and as I can't sleep tonight I guess I'll be making some more beady things

Lisa

WOYWW...172 :-D

Crikey!!  I've not posted on WOYWW for a good few months but after finally doing a bit of crafting, a lack of crafting has been due to being poorly and we hope to find out what it is soon, anyway I felt it was time to come and post on a Wednesday :-D Now the pics below are of the earrings I've been making lately, I was enabled by Krafty Karen, anyway here they are... (The black triangles with flowers on were made for my daughter to match a bracelet that we made together for her :-D )

Now this is the point where you wonder why I have a pic of a chair... this is one of my latest ebay bargains!! not bad for a fiver eh?... make that THREE CHAIRS!!! for a FIVER!! (One each for myself and Mr Wonderful and one for the kids pc in the living room!)

I love eBay, don't you?

Thanks for dropping by and thanks to our esteemed leader Julia for starting WOYWW, I love it when I get the chance to join in :-D and I can't believe its week 172! Ooh and if you are wondering where my WOYWW badge is... it's attached to the bag I crocheted, just on the right of the bottom pic

Lisa
:-D

Tomorrow is Tuesday....

Mr Wonderful is taking the day off to take me to hospital as I have to see a consultant about some long-term health issues... but in the meantime, I have sort of started a new hobby.... jewellery making!! I seem to be drawn towards earrings more than necklaces or bracelets but that's fine as my darling daughter likes to make bracelets!! she has sold a few already to school friends and has even learned how to do the knotting that is used for making shamballa bracelets! Unfortunately because of the problems I have with my hands I can't actually doing any crafting til about 4pm in the day as until then my fingers really hurt to move them so, as I get very tired now I spend most of the day napping off and on and come alive when my children come home from school...

I hope to start blogging again more often and maybe on Wednesday, I'll be back with WOYWW along with Julia and the rest of the woyww'ers.

Until then, bye for now

Lisa
:D

Today we are mostly filling forms out!

The boys have come home with the yearly school information form to be updated and I got a letter from the ME clinic with not one BUT two questionnaires in it!!... So I've been sat next to Mr Wonderful whilst he has asked the questions and done the writing... isn't he wonderful!! Wonderful by name and Wonderful by nature!!

Meanwhile the boys are suspiciously quiet downstairs... one is supposed to be researching David Livingstone and the old one is supposed to be tidying his bedroom!! this is the same room that was supposed to be tidied last weekend!! He sure can drag things out and we have taken away the dvd & cd players and next to go will be the wii and pc in the living room, in the hope that the other two will nag at him to do his room but when I asked him if he was bothered, his answer was short and not so sweet! "no!"

Where did this one come from???? the other two have relatively tidy rooms but his can be mistaken for a post nuclear fallout area!!! but saying that I love him to bits!! his blue eyes and blonde hair that is gradually going darker like his older sister's but youngest one looks very much like me with hair a very dark brown like his father...

Anyway darling daughter wants to be collected from her friends house then to go and collect another friend and bring them both back here....  Meanwhile... the boys have slipped quietly out of the front door!! little divils!

ttfn

L xx

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