I had my Covid booster and Flu jab last Saturday. No issue straight away so though I had got away with it. How wrong was I? We went to a family party Saturday night. That was not crystal to see everyone again. Near the end f the evening my arm started aching and the headache started.

Didn’t think much of it and because I had a drink I just though it was dehydration. I didn’t drink that much, only a vodka and coke and 2 glasses of Prosecco. That is practically nothing compare to what I used to put away on a dance weekend. I changed round my meds so I could have a drink. There was no issues doing that. I knew I wanted a drink so I was going to have one.

About 9 ish the headache started and so did the arm ache and 9:30 ish I’d had enough and needed to go home. It took about 30 minutes then to try and round everyone up. It started off with 2 of us, one of us then went off to find the others. Then there were 2 of us again but these 2 weren’t the original 2. It carried on like that for a bit but eventually everyone came together. We then had the fun of trying to go round everyone and say goodbye. That didn’t take as long as it could have done and about 10 ish we were on our way home.

I chilled out for a while and then went to bed.

Sunday morning I got up and found it very hard to get around. I was dizzier than usual. The pounding yea he was there 2. But it wasn’t pounding in the way you’d expect. Every pound was a wave of dizziness. It’s always fun when that happens. But with the extreme dizziness came mega wobbliness. I thought maybe a shower might make me feel better. It didn’t.

I told mum that I wasn’t that great and said I wouldn’t be able to go to knitting. It is t very safe going out when wobbly and dizzy. I tried to go back to bed for a bit. I didn’t end up going back to sleep just ended up sitting there eating sweets.

It sounds stupid to say but sugar made me feel better. I went as far as eating some more sweets and having a can of full fat coke. After that I was still wobbly and dizzy but started to feel better. Paracetamol is part of my normal meds so decided to add an ibuprofen. Again something else that made me feel better.

I still wasn’t feeling right but I was feeling better than I did in the morning. For most of the afternoon I spent my time colouring. I was a digital stamp I was colouring in using my polychromos. I still haven’t finished it as I’m taking my time. I’m enjoying it and even if I say so myself, it’s awesome. I’m colouring it with the help and instructions from a friend.

It’s still a work in progress but it’s good. If I remember I’ll put up a picture when it’s finished.

Everything I had were known side effects of the vaccine but, rather that that being in a coma on an ICU bed. As my immune system isn’t great I think the problem was from getting a double whammy of the glue and covid jabs at the same time.

Another thing that happened a few days before my jab was when everything just stopped working. Zoe and dad came back from their walk and as per usual Zoe needed drying. So I started drying he off as best as possible with a towel.

When I got her as dry as I could, which is t that dry, I stud up and everything stopped.

I didn’t know how to move, I didn’t know how to talk, I didn’t know what was happening. I didn’t know anything. I’ve no idea what caused it or what was happening. Mum found me stood there not doing anything. She managed to get me sat down. I don’t know how. And I sat there for a bit trying to move and I just couldn’t do it.

I spent the next hour trying to move and come round again. It was difficult but I eventually figured it out. I was able to move my hands and and arms. I even managed to move my legs and feet. The cognitive side of things started up again too. It was only then I realised how scary and weird it was. Because I didn’t know anything and didn’t understand anything it wasn’t scary because I didn’t know what scary was.

It was only after when things started getting back to normal I knew something wasn’t right.

It took a while but I started to get back to normal. That’s if you can call me or anything I do normal.

So I’ve the past couple of weeks there has been the usual crafty things. Some cards, some tangling m, knitting and you’ve already seen the colouring.

So cards:

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There might be one or two other but I didn’t take any picture of them.

So tangles and tiles:

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I’ve done a bit of other paper crafting this week. I made a little snow covered building

I’ve also used Eileen Hull’s Full Size Journal die to make 2 journals:

I haven’t put the pages in the multi coloured one yet but I hand sewed the pages together for both on them.

On to knitting, the octopus now has 8 legs and I’ve started the body. I may have to divert things slightly because someone has said they might want me to make a pram blanket for them. I’ll see what happens with that.

I’m well past and away from the covid jab now but I think I’ll go in search of some more sweets.

Love and light.