It's been way too long since my last post. This year has been something of a challenge for me. I got my cast off at the end of February. I started physiotherapy the following week. I'm going to the physiotherapist that my neighbour went to last year for a torn rotator cuff. He's very good. I'm there for a good two hours each visit. The ankle was starting to feel really good and Dan had given me permission to wear a small heel. Then on May 2 I was rear-ended. There was over $3500.00 damage to my car and my ankle was injured again and have a mild case of whiplash. That has put me back about four weeks in my recovery. Bummer. It is feeling much better. I would say it is almost to where it was before the accident. My insurance is now covering the cost of physio which is good. Dealing with the insurance people has been interesting. They sent an occupational therapist out to see if I needed any assistive devices. Then they sent a fellow out to take a statement from me that I had to sign.
On a more positive note, I won a $500.00 gift certificate at the salon where I get my hair cut. They also sell fabulous clothing so I have $300.00 on clothes and $200.00 on hair and services. It's the best thing that has happened to me all year.
A friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a mastectomy in March so I knit her a knitted knocker out of South Pacific. It is such lovely soft cotton it should feel nice against her skin. She's lost her hair so I'm going to knit her a chemo cap out of Smooth.
I won't be able to start that until after next week. We start inventory on Monday (yippee!). Chris is having four teams this year. Normally we have three but we have a lot more product than we did last year so hopefully this will speed things up.
I'm currently working on a pair of socks for my father out of Arequipa. He loves hand knit socks and he had to do so much more when I was laid up with the ankle that I thought I'd make him a new pair.
We had our Open House a couple of weeks ago. Lang has another strong offering for Autumn. We've added quite a few new qualities from Cascade also. Once inventory is over, I'll put the shade cards on the website. I've put the new Lang Jawoll Aktion on it already. I really like the Denim program that will be out in September. I love the colours.
I must be off, it's closing time. I'll try to post more frequently from now on.
Happy Knitting!
Susan
