Happy New Year (I think, sort of...)

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and 2009 is starting out well. Unfortunately, I have a nasty feeling that 2009 is not going to be one of my better years. I caught that horrible virus thing that is going around right before New Year's and was out of commission for almost two weeks. I was back to work for a week and then fell on January 13 and fractured my right ankle. This is a new experience for me. No one in our family has every broken anything (touch wood) so having a cast on is really different. I certainly have a much greater appreciation for disabled people. Nothing is simple anymore.

The people here at work have been great. Chris has been helping me up and down the steps outside. Jennifer, Lalenie, Annie Caroline have been great about getting me water or tea and heating up my lunch, bringing me documents from the printer, etc. I feel pretty useless however. I can sit at my desk (with my leg up of course) and can get most of the everyday work done though.

Because I can't drive I've asked my neighbour's son to drive me to and from work. He's been great and helps me in and out of the house. I'm getting better with my walker getting out of the house. The step from our front porch to the courtyard is quite steep so he helps me with that and he also helps getting me into the house. I find it much harder to hop up the steps than down. My father, bless his heart, has been wonderful but I know this has been hard on him. He's not used to so many trips up and down the stairs. I have to do the stairs on my bum. I can't use my walker on them and don't have the upper body strength to use crutches.

I haven't done much knitting over the last week. I was flat on my back with my leg elevated most of the time for the first 72 hours. I did knit myself a toe cosy out of our Superfine Alpaca. I had to, my toes were freezing!

I'm hoping to get some knitting done this weekend. I have a scarf out of Arequipa to work on. I've got both the chart and written instructions done for the first part but am going to have to reverse them for the end of it. The centre section is mostly plain knitting so it shouldn't take me too long to get that done.

Well, that's my tale of woe. Trying to be positive, the year can only get better can't it? I must go. Matthew will be here to pick me up soon.

Happy Knitting!
Susan