Samines

I help your hands create something beautiful

Category: Fracture

  • August Bank Holiday

    Continual strength and stamina in my body and improvement of my wrist as well as my ankle and feet.

    This morning I went swimming and walked from home which took about 25 minutes. I am quite thrilled with myself as I managed to push up onto the ledge with my body weight onto my hands and get myself out of the pool, this is the first time I have managed to do this since swimming in this pool, as there is no ladder going in and I have to crouch down to get onto my bottom and then swing my legs into the pool, it is quite a sight. 

    Around three weeks ago I managed for the first time to lift myself out of the bath and push my weight onto my hands to get myself out of the bath front facing. I am still in recovery with continual daily physio exercise and I have alarms set on my phone for times to do my exercises, sometimes I can be a bit slack especially when I feel I have had enough and when will this healing be completed so I do not need to do any more physio, then I remember I need to keep my mind set strong and realise I have to keep going. There is a saying “that Rome wasn’t built in a day”, which is very true, people turned up for work and progressed throughout the day with their tasks they needed to complete and the same goes for my wrist and ankle recovery.

    The picture is of a flower that dropped from a bunch if flowers onto the table and put into a glass of water. I recognised the colourful lilies as I bought a bunch for my sister’s birthday at the beginning of August.

  • Ivory Flower

    I have been approached to be part of a auction on Facebook, so while recovering from my broken wrist I was thinking it is best to use one of the existing flowers that I normally sell at Greenwich market. 

    The ivory flower has wire work as a central theme, I was working on developing ideas with wire to incorporate into the fascinators, this small flower is the only one of its kind in the smaller flower range.

    You can wear this ivory flower as a lapel pin to secure your scarf or onto your jacket as a broach or as a hair flower on the side. 

  • High Drama Casts On and Off

    Sunday 8th August saw me back in the hospital, this time not at A&E, but Sacu, I waited to see Dr Burnham, he is a kind and gentle doctor who listened to me about the story of the accident and the stages of being given different casts. I went back to see him as the side of the new cast had become sharp once it was dried, (he gave me a back slab)and it was causing irritation and I was having slight pins and needles, thankfully it wasn’t what it was like as I was given this cast…

    It pinched my thumb, hand and wrist and I had pins and needles from the tips of my right foot, tips of fingers of red hand and upper arm travelling up to my shoulder across the back of shoulders slightly down my back and travelling down the left shoulder and arm.  I knew it wasn’t normal, but the thing was I had only been home from A&E for less than an hour, the cast I was given was on the Friday was a fibre cast and I choose blue, quite a calming colour to look at when looking at my wrist, I am digressing, I had gone to bed and the pins and needles were much fierce this time and knew I had to go back.

    Dr Burnham said if there were any issues with the back slab, (which is the same as 1st image), to come back and see him, I was so confident that there wouldn’t be that I said I wouldn’t be back, in a way I now see it was the right thing to have gone back to see him, as while I was waiting my blood pressure was taken and this time it was normal, Saturday the pressure was ridiculously high. Dr Burnham showed up with another colleague who was a consultant called Dr Varma and he scared the willies into me, because the cast was taken off and he demanded that I make a fist with my right hand, I was in pain and the fingers were stiffened. Dr Varma said something very key, that if I cannot get my hand moving I wouldn’t be able to do embroidery and that is what scared me, not to be able to go back to my work of creating, designing and making.