A little pain and a dilemma

The little pain explanation may be a tad TMI.  You are more than welcome to pass this by and scroll down to the more importante stitchy stuff below.

Went in yesterday for my Essure procedure.  Essure is a permanent form of birth control that uses nickel/titanium coils in place of cutting or stapling tubes.  I thought long and hard about going in for it but made the decision that:

1) I wasnt planning on having more children (2 are plenty for me)

2) BC pills are becoming more and more expensive and a cost sink (see item 1)

3) I could recover from this procedure a tad better than the man would with a vasectomy.  I sit at a desk all day while he is moving around. 

The only thing I wish I would have done a bit more research on is what would I be doing during the procedure.  I had AssuMed that I would be awake with happy meds in my system but no, I was put to sleep.  Which is bad as I have an adverse reaction to anesthesia (feel like I could barf up my feet).  So coming out of sleeping, in pain (like really severe cramps) I felt sick.  THEN they gave me fentanyl on top of the anesthesia (that was wearing off).  Feeling good was so not happening for me.  Took me an additional 2 hrs recovery than anyone was expecting.  Had I known I was going to be put out, I would have worked with the Dr way ahead of time on some other form of anesthesia.

So after sleeping off all the fun drugs, I had a pretty good night and today only have twinges of normal period cramping.  Now I get to wait 3 months, go in for verification that everything is nice and blocked – then its bye bye pills!

 

STITCHY STUFF!!

Darn Nora and her new letters!

Now that she has released N, I need to get going on the letters for the nieces.  B, H, K & N.  Dont think I will get them completed by Christmas.  Its the darn “OH SHINEY” moments that get me every time!

The Dilemma - Im thinking of dying my own fabric for Ladies Night.  Figure I need a Fat 1/2 to complete the job (with 3 inches around each piece to play with).  Now its just finding the right kind of fabric to dye.  Should I use Raw linen?  Its already dark to begin with.  The fabric will be a purple/royal blue or blue mix (depending on how purple the royal blue is)  Talking with a friend, she thinks that white linen has already been processed and may not hold the dye well (good thinking there).

Updates!  To show Ive actually been stitching (really I have!)

Tanglewood – This tree came out again this month for the Drawn Thread/Ink Circle night at A&T and stayed out all week! Train stitching and all.  Of course there is still a frog hanging out in this project, I tried my darnedest all week to exterminate him.

Dragon of Fire – I havent worked on this one for a while but needed to show where I had gotten.

Baby Sampler for Mackenzie – I worked a bit more on the 2nd flower last night before going back to bed (yup, 4 hrs up killed me, lol).  Hope to be able to finish this one tonight.

 

Tonight is Canned Nuts at A&T – 6 fun filled hrs of hen cackling (and maybe some rooster crowing – depends if they show up), stitching and eating.