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Mary Zombie · Your brains...they're delicious.

RE: Share your happies!

dinkyd · Wine, like women, gets better with age

Here's my happy (and shameless brag):

I delivered 12 hand-made crocheted afghans to the local chemo therapy center for lung cancer and COPD last week. Each one was made in the memory of my dear friend, Dani, who passed almost a year ago to lung cancer. Her biggest complaint about chemo was how cold she always was. She was buried with the afghan I made her.

It was such a wonderful feeling to finish the project with my crummy hands. Each afghan took about 40+ hrs to make even though each pattern should only have taken 5-6 hrs. I managed to do it all in just under a year.

DH helped me carry them in and we both left with such big grins, knowing that patients will be able to cover up with a personalized afghan.

Next project: an afghan made with all the leftover yarn from the project for Dani's niece and her family so they'll have a piece of the project they've been so supportive of.

kapper · I am always right, unless I am wrong.

dinkyd wrote:
Here's my happy (and shameless brag):

I delivered 12 hand-made crocheted afghans to the local chemo therapy center for lung cancer and COPD last week. Each one was made in the memory of my dear friend, Dani, who passed almost a year ago to lung cancer. Her biggest complaint about chemo was how cold she always was. She was buried with the afghan I made her.

It was such a wonderful feeling to finish the project with my crummy hands. Each afghan took about 40+ hrs to make even though each pattern should only have taken 5-6 hrs. I managed to do it all in just under a year.

DH helped me carry them in and we both left with such big grins, knowing that patients will be able to cover up with a personalized afghan.

Next project: an afghan made with all the leftover yarn from the project for Dani's niece and her family so they'll have a piece of the project they've been so supportive of.

That's fantastic dinkyd! I would like to thank you as a COPD sufferer. I can't even imagine how cold you'd get with lung cancer. I know that I get cold so easy now that I carry a coat with me (although I have only needed it inside lately).

dinkyd · Wine, like women, gets better with age

Thanks Kapper! Dani put off seeking help for so long, that by the time they diagnosed her (and I started her afghan), there wasn't much they could do. She opted for 5-day/wk aggressive chem anyway. It was rough, but she glowed thru it all - a gracious Southern belle who was also capable of telling it like it was. She was a hoot!

I truly miss her. We met on a stepfam forum and became fast friends 7 yrs ago. (Whoever said that friendships weren't possible on the Internet was crazy.) This time last year, I was receiving her wee-hours-of-the-morning calls when her pain meds weren't kicking in. I'd go outside and stand in our pool and look at the night sky and stars and listen....and listen...and often hear her finally nod off. I.just.plain.miss.her.

EmmDee · Guru

dinkyd, that is such an awesome thing you did for them and in honor of your friend. Your happy makes me happy as my father passed away from lung cancer. Thank you for doing such a wonderful thing.

Mary Zombie · Your brains...they're delicious.

I've worked with Cancer patients Dinky and I can tell ya...That IV room gets freakin cold. They really appreciate the Afgans. It's so comforting to them too.
You are Awesome!

dinkyd · Wine, like women, gets better with age

Thanks ladies!

While I'm taking a break, I've plenty of yarn to make more. (don't tell DH that's what's in those black trash bags in the shed!) I think my project will continue - just not the frantic pace I set myself to make a dozen in a year.

My only disappointment was that I couldn't afford to send them to St. Thomas' in Nashville where she was a patient. Maybe these next afghans....