Hi, friends!
I sincerely apologize for disappearing like I did this past month, I've posted a few times to IG & FB that I was struggling with migraines and was unable to make new content but I wanted to make a formal blog post letting you all know what's going on since it looks like this won't be a short-lived problem.
In June I had some basic dental work done but started experiencing lots of pain & migraines shortly thereafter. As someone who used to get migraines regularly I thought it must just be that the dental work combined with stress and allergies must have triggered them again so I did my best to deal with them and assumed the accompanying mouth pain was just lingering from the dental work (again, not uncommon for me). I avoided screens as much as I could, drank lots of water, did all the things that typically help with my migraines but after a few weeks they pain was only getting worse.
I finally called my dentist back to see if they would take a look because it did feel like my bite was slightly off so I went in and they made a small adjustment to the filling I had. That helped tremendously with some of the mouth pain that I had been having, but I was still waking up in the middle of the night with incredible head and face pain near my left ear, across my face, and down my neck. The following week (last week) my dentist recommended that I see a chiropractor to see if it was a TMJ problem with my jaw... Bingo.
The chiropractor did an adjustment which helped, but didn't completely solve the problem so I'll be seeing him for regular adjustments until we can resolve my jaw pain. I'm still getting migraines on a daily basis from it, but they aren't as debilitating as they had been so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to start posting videos and such again soon. I'm not rushing into tons of extra work and screen time at the moment though just because rest does seem to help quite a bit when I can get it. So baby and I have been going to bed early and taking naps together whenever possible as I try to heal. (Babies are great snugglers, but don't worry, he's sleeping in his own crib in our room.)
I know lots of you are waiting on the reveal of the WWKIPD Mystery Shawl... I'm torn on if I should just reveal it and send the full pattern out or if I should finish posting the clue walk-throughs first. I really struggle with stuff like this sometimes and get a lot of anxiety over it because I feel like I'm letting people down either way. Right now my plan is to film the remaining tutorials as soon as I'm feeling well enough to do so then post them as soon as they're ready, then send out the pattern update so the final pattern has all the tutorials linked right in it. What are your thoughts?
Thank you so much to everyone who has been supporting me and sending well wishes on IG/FB, I do see the notification pop-up on my phone when I can check my phone even if I can't respond in the app right away. If you've sent me an email recently, I apologize that it's been taking me longer to reply and update the list of affected Stitches vendors. I promise I'll update it as soon as I can, it's just been really difficult to do much with my site at all. (Hence why it's taken me so long to write this post.)
I hope you all have a wonderful week,
Happy Crafting!
Shaina ^_^
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