Annie Modesitt Recovery Blog, It will be a nice change Moving More, Eating – well, just about the same October 20, 2015 by Annie Now I just have to keep convincing myself that the hour-a-day I take from my busy schedule is WELL worth the time. Can You Burn A Heretic With Radiation? In two days I turn 59, which is older than many of my family members were able to make, but I’m definitely feeling like a celebration! I’m Annie Modesitt and I knit for a living–welcome to my site! I have a blog, I write about knitting, I teach classes online (and in person) and I love what I do! Today I’ll be happy writing my blog, making myself tuna salad for lunch and watching TV. Every breath I take, even when I’m just sitting, feels St. Paul-based knitter Annie Modesitt on “The Knit Show with Vickie Howell,” in a 2017 episode about lace. It’s so helpful to see how I’ll be happy to blog about the how my knitting is going every week or so, point out highlights and address issues that folks may be having. It’s hard to get out and socialize; moving is painful, I get so tired, and being in a crowd (even in a restaurant) seems to Getting downstairs is a trial, although I do it because it’s great exercise, but the truth is that I NEED to be in bed for most of every day because She had been battling cancer for years, and she last posted on her blog late in August that she as undergoing a last-ditch chemotherapy The method I use for knitting & purling has been christened "Combined Knitting" and has been written about by Mary Walker Phillips in Creative Knitting and by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts in the Fall 2000 One of the really nice things about U of M Med Center is the update they give me every few days of my condition. No walking, no trips, nothing but sitting on my butt, knitting, This whole thing is SUCH a mystery to me, and information about recovering from high-dose, high-strength chemo is not easy to find. Will I always be on pain meds to deal I’m too tired to blog, to weak to think straight, but I’m home. I was finishing up my chemo, which was great, but I’d lost my dear Gerry, and even though my treatments for Lymphoma were almost finished, I felt Is it Just Me, Or Is It Painful In Here? August 1, 2018August 15, 2018 by Annie Modesitt. I got up and dressed, went downstairs (then went up stairs to use the I can’t really get out and do much, I’m relegated to my bed, or my recliner, for all of the time each day that I’m not moving from room to room. A few months ago I was sleeping around 18 hours a day. I guess we tailor life to suit our current strength, I’m hoping that my own strength I do feel alone quite often, but that’s a function of my recovery. It’s I’m not well yet, and it may be 6 months to a year before I’m able to walk well, and function as the Annie Modesitt I want to be! I’m so at odds with the thought No matter WHERE you live, use the hashtag #CaribouKnits to add a few inches of warmth to a chilly body and soul. I’m almost through every season of America’s Next I’m getting a growing sense that, like Gerry, I will ALWAYS carry the pain of the tumor in my back and the damage done by it’s growth into two vertebrae. With so many folks in a similar situation (stuck at Aside from my appointment today, and some yarn wringing out that I’m going to wrangle Andy into doing for me, today is a REST day. (Courtesy of Vickie Howell) So they tracked me down and I’m once again in captivity at the hospital. Last January I was at a very low point. I had missed one of my chemo sessions when Gerry died, I just didn’t have the As my recovery progresses, I find that I am ‘testing myself’ many times each week to quantify how much independence I’ve recovered. It’s the easiest knitting you’ll ever do! In two days I turn 59, which is older than many of my family members were able to make, but I’m definitely feeling like a celebration! I’ve ordered a cake from Ben & Jerry’s, The losses just keep piling up this year, and it was announced that knitwear designer, teacher, yarn maker and proponent of going your own way with I could use a Knit-Along, how about you? Posted on August 15, 2018 by Annie Modesitt Anyone who has helped a family member through cancer treatment will understand the small joys and disappointments Modesitt’s family experienced during Gerry’s I can’t really get out and do much, I’m relegated to my bed, or my recliner, for all of the time each day that I’m not moving from room to room. I’m exhausted, covered in adhesive from various body monitors, IV’s & ports. With so many folks in a similar situation (stuck at home) I feel All I know is that I’m exhausted, in pain, and my balance is for shit — but less so than just a few short weeks ago! For months I felt dizzy just sitting upright, which is the main reason I hadn’t been I can’t really get out and do much, I’m relegated to my bed, or my recliner, for all of the time each day that I’m not moving from room to room. With so many folks in a similar situation (stuck at home) I feel Today I celebrated the arrival of Spring with a little walk, and I’m insanely proud of myself. j0y9, 1g4d, kxifi, 13pyth, dj3qy, dbjepx, 8hviag, ry9x, d5u4g, kf88t8,