When Life Gives You Whiplash, Make Socks

It turns out that when you have whiplash, you should take it fairly easy.  Who knew?  I thought that I was taking it easy enough, but I ended up back at urgent care a week after the accident with unmanagable pain.  After x-rays (did you know that they x-ray the first cervical vertebrae through your mouth?  Say ahhh...), I got a very stern lecture from the trauma doctor, and I was sent home to bed, with orders to do as little as possible and to take the big strong painkillers.  So I did.

But man, that gets boring, fast.  Which led to me casting on the 2nd pattern from the first Cookie A club packet (rav link).  I very carefully never asked the doctor about knitting, so, to the best of my knowledge, it was totally fine for me to be doing that during my bedrest ;-)  During the 4 days in bed, I finished the first sock.

This may be my favorite sock, ever.  The allover ribbing makes for a perfect fit, and the pattern was easy without being boring- the instep decreases are worked in a fabulously unique way.  The yarn is Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock Lightweight, in the True Blood colorway.  STR tends to run a bit heavier than comparable sock yarns, and I think it worked well for this pattern.

After 4 days of nothing, I returned to the real world slowly and cautiously.  The trauma doctor had given me a soft collar, and I have to say, it was a godsend. I'm fairly po'd at the original doctor for not giving me one the night of the accident and also not being clear about what I should and should not do.  Thankfully, I am done with the collar now, and also, with the second sock!

 

I mirrored the cables on the second sock. Tiny touch, but a nice one.

I'm off the major painkillers now, and rather than stabby awful pain, I'm just really really sore.  I am back to work, and today made it for an entire day, the first time in 2.5 weeks!  I start PT on Friday...wish me luck!

Comments

[Ruth]

They are gorgeous socks.

So glad to hear you are on the mend.

[Samantha]

I was hesitant about signing up for a pricey sock club again- I enjoyed the Rockin Sock Club last year but... that's a lot of $$ on knitting all at once.  But I am so glad I did- the first shipment from Cookie A was wonderful.  BOTH patterns rocked.  Now I'm chomping at the bit to see April's shipment- due next week.