I’m only writing a blog post right now because I’m trying to kill time before I leave for the doctor in an hour, and all I have the strength to do is writhe and moan. Time crawls when you’re doing nothing but writhing and moaning. So hopefully, by posting, I’ll be a little distracted.

That back pain that showed up on Thursday stayed with me all weekend. I managed it with Tylenol and Advil, and now it’s worse. I called the doctor and they said I might have a kidney infection. I’m miserable. It hurts so bad I’m nauseated.

Anyway, Nate and I had a fantastic weekend, except that neither one of us slept well on that miserable mattress. We both woke up at least 4 times a night, mine made worse by the back/potential kidney pain. And that’s totally unfair, because Nate’s main objective this weekend was to get some good sleep, and I was looking forward to the same, not having Clark to wake me.

I finished knitting the sampler purse, now I need to attach an icord strap.

It sucks in at the bottom, as a result of my getting better with holding the yarns and maintaining tension as I progressed. I have to keep telling myself that it doesn’t matter, because it was a sampler purse to learn a technique. It still bugs me. But it’s pretty.

And that’s all I can write. I have to go lay down. If it gets much worse, I’m not going to be able to drive myself to my appointment, and that would be horribly inconvenient.

I have zillions of pictures from the weekend that I can’t wait to share, once I get my wits back and this pain goes away.