Desperate Times Call for Crocheting

 A couple of weeks ago I was spending some time in a hospital bed getting ready for an angiogram. Yup, I'd been having a little trouble with my ticker acting weird and the doctors all decided they needed an inside look.  Not really knowing what I was in store for other than I could not eat or drink for 12 hours... I was a little nervous.  All they kept saying was it just depends on what they find when they insert that little needle or camera into the vein in my wrist and up to my heart. If it was all good I could go home. If they found clogging, well then they would have to do something about that and it may include a longer hospital stay.

Yeah, so what else do you do when you are awaiting medical tests and who knows what kind of news?  You knit or crochet your worries away.  My husband did me the favor of  recording this reaction of mine to the stress of waiting to go to the surgical theater.

I got most of a dishcloth crocheted while waiting!  Even with iv needles in my and a pulse monitor on my tension finger I was able to crochet.  And my husband just shook his head and laughed as my blood pressure kept going down. The nurse saw this and said maybe all her patients should crochet while waiting for surgery!  I agreed!

Afterward, with good news that my arteries were beautiful, I had to wait several days to get back to knitting or crocheting since my wrist was swollen and black and blue. But it was worth it for the good news.