Has been a Long Time!!!

Oh WOW.. I am being such a terrible blogger.. it has been almost a year since I updated.  Not an excuse but have to say alot has happened in the last year.  Oct 2010.. I went into the hospital for surgery to repair a very large hernia that developed..my incision from a previous surgery opened up rather extensively.. was in the hospital for a week... came home and wasn't feeling quite right.... so the short version is this... developed pockets of fluid that had to be re-opened.. which left a small hole in my belly....which then became infect and then got necrotic (rotten). Was then put back in the hospital for another surgery to have all the rotten tissue cut away, was septic (the infection was in my blood stream) spent a week in the hospital again... came home for several weeks on IV antibiotics and a wound vac because I now had a huge hole in my belly...at 2 1/2 months after the first surgery I am now back in the hospital for another week.. due to be allergic to the antibiotics I was on... in acute renal failure and to have another surgery to close the wound.... all in all it was a long 3 months.  Needless to say no stitching was done during this time... Way to sick for that.... but all is well now and back to stitching up a storm... since Feb I have stitched

Maria Moll

Jane Rees

And this is last weeks progress on Jane Atkinson.... WOW Jane is such a fun stitch... like coloring... outline the area and fill it in... I just love it and will be sad when she is finished.

So since things are back to normal I do hope to be much better about posting stitching updates on a regular basis... Hope everyone is having a great summer and getting some time to stitch  :)))