Temecula Quilt Company is having a 1/2 square triangle quilt along!! Well...I was just thinking about that, LOL! Please see a couple of posts back...1/2 square triangles are on my brain.
I love them...so scrappy and reminiscent of the quilts these little pieces were made from. On we go!!
I am hand quilting the last border. It is a bit sweet, and thrilling that this project is wrapping up!!!
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Please do not read if you are not into gritty truth...this is sad, sad, sad.
My friend Pam, of almost thirty years, died on the 7th, of sepsis. I was the one who took her to the hospital on the fifth...and stayed with her part of the time up there...she had breast cancer, and suddenly developed sepsis of an unknown source. We still don't know exactly why she got so, so sick, so quickly. What was the source of the sepsis? Not one doctor could pinpoint it. In desperation, after she coded and we got her back, our surgeon friend took her to high risk, last ditch effort surgery. He slashed open her abdomen and explored, thinking maybe necrotic bowel? Maybe gangrenous gallbladder? Maybe cancer everywhere? What, what, what was it? He found nothing. NOTHING to account for her horrendous white count, her obvious sepsis.
I am so sad I cannot stand it. She was a constant in my life...the first nurse who greeted this little nurse, timid and tiny back then 30 years ago...she made me feel welcome in this scary, big hospital. We had many unspoken and unfinished things among us. There is a feeling of unrest and great misery among all who knew her. Just too soon, taken too young, too fast and way too unexpected.
She could not communicate well what was going on with her...that would have helped things, I think. Just so, so sad here.
Thank you for listening.
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And now back to the fun quilting things. I won't mention Pam again...but she was a great lady, and quilter, and is so missed.
Julie
