{"id":64,"date":"2005-08-27T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T04:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifiville.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-02-23T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:03:30","slug":"its-ok-im-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s ok, I&#039;m still here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been been meaning to blog for a few days now, just hadn&#8217;t quite got around to it. And then I had Lynn&#8217;s comment and felt terrible! I thought I&#8217;d better blog now and put your minds at ease. <\/p>\n<p>I had the blood test results on Tuesday, which included one for a type of cancer (!) and they were&nbsp; good. My levels are coming down to normal. I have to have some more tests done at the end of September just to double check that they are still coming down.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor says the results support his theory that I had a viral infection that caused my immune system to attack me. I still have aches in my hips and my right shoulder and they could last at best for a few weeks, at worst for a few months. He&#8217;s cleared me to go back to work on Tuesday, Monday is a public holiday here, and I&#8217;m very excited about that. I just want to get some normality back. And I&#8217;ve really missed my work and my colleagues. I&#8217;ve felt as if I&#8217;ve been under house arrest for the last five weeks. <\/p>\n<p>I had put in a leave request before I became sick for next Thursday and Friday and I&#8217;m still taking those days off. So next week I&#8217;ll be easing myself back by only working Tuesday and Wednesday. I&#8217;ll be spending most of my time sat at my desk because the aches make too much walking difficult. I&#8217;m just going to have to see how things go.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Hannah did some Reiki on my shoulder on Friday as a present and reckons that it&#8217;s healing which is good.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of gifts. <a href=\"http:\/\/fibrespates.blogs.com\/blog\/\">Jeni<\/a> gave me some of her wonderful hand dyed Silk Boucle on Monday and a pattern for this scarf. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/images\/silkboucle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/images\/silkboucle.jpg\" title=\"Silkboucle\" alt=\"Silkboucle\" class=\"image-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a quick knit and the pattern is available with purchases of her yarn. The scarf is fringed and before fringing is 153cm I think. It takes two skeins of the SB but if you used her sock yarn you could get two scarves from one skein. She has a better picture of the pattern on her <a href=\"http:\/\/fibrespates.blogs.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in today&#8217;s post a surprise parcel from Paris from the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kategilbert.com\/blog\/\">Kate Gilbert<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/images\/neigeyarn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/images\/neigeyarn.jpg\" title=\"Neigeyarn\" alt=\"Neigeyarn\" class=\"image-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>4 balls &#8211; enough to make quite a few of her famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kategilbert.com\/stuff.html\">bunnies<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitcast.com\">KnitCast<\/a> &#8211; It may be to optimistic of me to say that it&#8217;ll be ready by Monday so to be on the safe side let&#8217;s say Monday Sept 5th instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been been meaning to blog for a few days now, just hadn&#8217;t quite got around to it. And then I had Lynn&#8217;s comment and felt terrible! 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