DK Quilt Guild: Quick and Simple Quilts

DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. Quilters here are at many different levels of skill. Beginners and non-quilters are welcome, too! It has been a hell of a week at Catnip Manor.  Many of you already know this but my sister, Ann was taken seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital last Sunday.  One minute, we were at a pub lunch with one of our quilt recipients, Phil N DeBlanc, eating happily.  The next, Ann is shaking with chills so hard we had to leave.  We took her temperature at home and it was 103.1.  Fifteen minutes later it was 103.6 -- so it was off to the ER.  Fortunately, watercarrier4diogenes was still at the pub and he came to our house and took us to the hospital.  Stayed with us, too, until she was admitted!

Ann had a blood borne illness that she evidently picked up at work from an animal (she works at a pet store).  Poor baby was put through a CT scan, chest x-ray and spinal tap before she was admitted -- not to mention all the blood tests.  She was put on an IV drip with three different antibiotics at once.  By Wednesday, her white cell count was down to normal and she was well enough to come home.

Her doctor thinks she knows what it is.  Apparently, all Ann's symptoms line up with a very rare and very deadly disease -- and her blood is now being tested for antibodies to that illness.  If we had not got to the ER as promptly as we did, Ann might have died.  So we are very, very lucky.

We are also very, very tired.  I'm not sure that we'll be able to get as much done for the VA Hospital Support Project as we had hoped, given this health emergency.  However, we have finished four quilts and have started some simple ones -- see pictures below!