Sunny delight

Look at Sarah & Sam's flowers! Isn't it kind of freaky (but cool) how cut flowers can still keep blossoming?

Now where was I?

Oh yes, coming to in the recovery room -- well, I will spare you all the unhappy details of recovering from anesthesia. Those of you who have, don't want to revisit, I'm sure. And those of you who haven't, no need to share the laughter and the joy. Let's just put it this way: green is not just the color of my healing bruises, ok?

Yes, I will just sum up my recent discoveries this way:

• my skin was blue from the radioactive dye for a day or two -- ack!
  
  
• my um, left upper quadrant, is still swollen -- though no longer scarily so -- and bruised (just think: this is what it's supposed to look like!) so since it unnerves to see what my body looks like there, I try to avoid looking at it except twice a day, when I change into/out of my jammies
  
  
• there are now two 2" incisions from the surgery, one on my left boob (thank gawd I'm right handed!) and one an inch below my left armpit, which leads me to my next comment...
  
  
• I am discovering just how many actions involve my left arm & pecs: walking, sitting up, lying down, rolling over in bed, reaching, putting things down, picking things up, knitting -- you get the idea (ow, ow, ow...)
  
  
• yes, this also limits my knitting a bit, alas, but since I had limited reading materials and only basic cable at mom's, I was able to finish the following projects:
  

1. a pumpkin hat for a baby (my fellow Princetonian alums, watch out: I have finally found a use for the bundles of extra orange yarn from the Harf! buwahahaha! oh, and also for the leftover green Lion Cotton from the baby reefer jacket)
   
   
2. the garter cardi I started with the wonderfully fluffy (machine washable!) Gedifra yarn I bought on eBay. This is for the co-worker whose baby outgrew the sweater I originally knit for her, during her maternity leave.

Here she is, wearing my "I.O.U." apple hat. Isn't she a cutie?

Oops! The cable guy's here. Gotta run.

I will just leave you all with a shot of my belated birthday cake last month, which my sister made (did I post this already?) Yummmmm...