Not a good week, it could have been better.
Time spent with Doctors and Specialists and the outcome......just fine. I didn't think it was going to be because I had found another lump in my breast and my first thought was that the cancer had come back, but, it turned out to be non malignant, the anxiety and stress I could have done without.
During this time my finger got a bit better and I started to write a book to take my mind of everything. Someone asked me about all the work I did for a design challenge I took part in with friend Pam back in 2010. So, I looked back at the blog I set up to record my work and reflected on what I had achieved. I did learn a lot. New skills and a lot about myself. So now I am putting it into book form. In fact I have more than half the first draft finished, just for my family and myself. As this disease progresses and the arthritis limits my movement I might start to write another and who knows where that might lead.
I have kept dairies since my late teens but I threw a lot of them away when I retired and I regret that now. My blog posts started about 2007 and I have all of those. Seen from this distance all those events take on a different aspect.
The other irritation has been with Bernina and the servicing of my sewing machine. It is now over 3 months since I put it in for a service. The problem, the clips on the throat plate. There is no stock in Australia of many spare parts. I would have willingly bought a new throat plate, but there is non to be had.
Asking around it seems that the company, now being run by another generation, have done away with holding a stock of spare parts for current machines and discontinued completely holding spare parts for older machines. Personally I find this short sighted.
I have always had 3 machines. A current model, a back up and an overlocker. Well, since my early 30's. When I upgraded, the old machine went to family members, my daughter and daughters-in-law. I bought new machines for both of my grand daughters. (That equates to about 20 machines over the years.) At the time I thought my current model (the 720) would last my lifetime and the ones I gave my family could be used now and upgraded as time went by.
When I was teaching full time many of my students bought Bernina Machines on my recommendation. I am now questioning my decision to buy the Bernina Brand and will start researching other brands and see which ones will give the best performance and service. Shame. I'm sure I'm not the only person thinking like this.