I was able to finally complete sock no. 2! Here are Iain's socks, washed and blocked (on coat hangers) and drying. As I've said before, waiting rooms are the best places to knit, especially mindless inches of straight knit or simple knit-purl pattern.
While, of course, the surgeons were accomplishing this in the OR ... (I've made this picture small. For those of you who are brave, click on the photo to see an enlargement of the surgeon's handiwork).
My last view of Kev as he was whisked away to the ambulance was my hand-knit socks keeping his feet warm as his fever was rising.
And one more life/knitting parallel ... since her many visits to the hospital, Alison has been looking online at medical schools. She was incredibly "at home" in the hospital, and coped with situations that would leave many of us freaking out. She had nurses showing her how to use monitors and other equipment. She was not overly disturbed by the tiny man dying of cancer in the next door bed. I ended up pulling her from school for two days and bringing her with me since she was learning so much from "life" (still a home educator at heart). She is wondering whether her love of knitting and all things sewing, along with her love of all things medical, might mean she should look into becoming a surgeon. Yikes. Knitting people back together again.
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