Health Update

Well been on the new course of antibiotics for 5 1/2 days, not seeing much difference, except fever now is low grade if I move around too much. The antibiotics I have been on since this started back in July are as follows...

1) Cipro. for 5 days

2) Macrob. for 7 days

3) Cipro. IV (while in ER)

4) Cipro. for 10 days (in which I have taken 5 1/2 days)

I got a call from the hospital/ER that I was at last Wed. night and they told me to stop taking the Cipro. they pescribed last Wed. because my infection is resistant to it. According to my Urinalysis that they did (they divided my infection from my urine into a lot of p-tree (?) dishes and tried to kill the infection with different antibiotics)...guess what antibiotics did not kill the infection...yup the ones listed above!!! However one of the ones that did kill the infection was Bactrim so they called in to my pharmacy a 10 day course of the Bactrim antibiotic. Which I am told to start taking in the morning. Hopefully this will all be over with soon and I can get back to quilting.

I was told to still keep my follow up visit with my primary care doc next Tues. and have them check for the infection..they said their should be a HUGE improvement with my urine culture. If there is then I should be able to get some customer quilts done next week...here's hoping :0)  

Emergency Room Visit

I posted recently that I had a UTI infection, started mid July. Well the past couple of days I have been feeling very tired and off and last night after dinner I started getting sick and my temp shot up from a normal temp to a high temp in 40 min, chills, shakes etc..DH took me to the emergency room where they ran some test...urine culture and complete blood work. Tests showed that yes a massive infection is still present (that hasn't been responding to the previous antibiotics prescribed the last two times this past month). My white blood cell count is highly elevated (which doc said is to be expected given the size of my infection). Good news is that my blood sugar levels are normal, and there is no signs of kidney damage. So the doc hooked me up to an IV of antibiotics and perscribed me yet another dose of a different antibiotics that will run a course of 10 days this time along with a follow up visit at the end of the antibiotics to do another test to make sure the infection is gone. He also said until this infection is resolved that I need lots of rest, lots of water & cranberry juice and no working during this time.

So had to cancel all my drop off appointments for the next 10 days. For all of those that currently have their quilts here at Gecko Quilts, please be patient, they will get done in the order that they came in, as soon as I am told by my doctor that I can go back to work. I am so sorry if this is an inconvienece for any of you but my health has to come first here. If you need to pick up your unquilted quilt, please call me and I will arrange a pick up time next week. 

Thanks for your understanding. 

Thanks Bobbi!!!

A good quilter friend of mine dropped off some quilts for me today, she is one awesome lady, I always love it when she drops by or when we talk on the phone. She is always willing to share recipes (she even taught me how to make tamales!), quilt patterns, new techniques and today she even drop off some goodies for me.

She gave me a new quilt pattern that uses a pretty cool technique and a huge tub of scraps!

The last time I talked to her I mentioned that I bought the Bonnie Hunter pattern books that uses lots of scraps to make awsesome scrap quilts and she said that the next time she saw me that she would give me some of her scraps :0)

Thanks Bobbi, can't wait to dive into them and create some cool stuff with it...stay tuned, but first need to sort and organize them into my scrap stash. :0) 

Dog Days of Summer

Well I am no longer sick been well all week and 4 of the 5 kids are back in school, my oldest Vicki goes back to college at the end of the month.

The monsoon season is in full force meaning lots of humidity with 100 degree temps :0( I hate this part of the year, I am so ready for the cooler temps.

Ok so since I didn't post any pics the last time, I will now...

This is the completed first month of my Dear Jane Blue

And this is the completed first month of the Dear Jane Kaffe Fassett, I am liking how they are comming out but since it has been so hot I haven't really felt like doing much sewing on these, even though I am doing mostly paper piecing and machine applique instead of needle turn applique they are very time consumming. At this rate I may have these two quilts piced by the time I am 50 (I will be 45 in Nov).

I did however make some head way on this UFO, it is my Desert Nine Patch Quilt, I am making a king size one for my bed. This one will probably be done long before the Dear Jane quilts, lol it is so simple...just nine patch blocks on point alternating with solid blocks..thats it, easy peasy ;0) 

I Hate Being Sick

Sorry no pics today.

Just me feeling sorry for myself. I have been sick for the most part since 7/19/11. It started with a bladder infection, I have only had 1 other bladder infection in my life and it was almost 3 years ago. So when I got this one I wasted no time got to the doctor, confirmed that yes it was a bladder infection and started taking antibiotics. Felt better, and finished the meds. All seemed fine then within a week after I finished the antbiotics, it was back

:0( Made another doctor appt but had to suffer through the weekend. mean while my oldest who just got back from a Cali vaca with her friends came down with the flu...can you guess what happened? That's right since my immune system was already weakened because of the on going bladder infection I got the flu as well! My doctor appt was Monday, they confimed yes my bladder infection did come back, most likely because the 5 day antibiotics given to me before wasn't long enough...so now I am on a different antibiotic and this time it's for a full week. On top of that my temperature shot up to 102.7 degrees (and pretty much stayed their all day and into the night even with taking Advil) Monday as well because of the flu my DD gave me compete with full body aches, chills and nausea. My fever finally broke in the wee hours of the night but still feeling kind of drained....Again I hate being sick!!! And of course it had to be when my MIL was out of town, DH and I was looking forward to having some time alone while she was gone but instead I have been sick :0(