No laughing out there , I decided to knit some bonnets for the prem unit and grant you I knit pretty fast ………after about half an hour I fell a bit strange and discovered on my watch that I’d walked about an extra 4000 steps , my heart rate was in the low nineties and blood pressure had shot up , needless to say I put the knitting down and ignored the extra steps my heart and blood pressure have resumed normal service …..weird or what ?
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I don’t expect to climb a mountain but knitting puts my heart rate up!
Are you one of the demon knitters of Dent?
Hi hazel. You have sent me off to bed with a giggle! Does smoke come out of your needles too? Ps a lovely thing for you to do for such a worthwhile cause. X
Don’t know about smoke but the air is slightly blue sometimes with complicated patterns 😂😂😂
Haha thank you for the post, had me chuckling
Yes, knitting can be dangerous. 😃 Gave me thumb tendonitis.
I am remembering many many years ago - about 50. - when my Mum had a heart attack She was told she had to give up knitting!! Interestingly I had forgotten that and as I had a heart attack 17 months ago, I am wondering if I should stop knitting!
I have to be honest I do knit pretty fast and hadn’t done any for ages , after about half an hour I felt really peculiar and just looked at my blood pressure because it’s all over the place just lately. My heart rate was 94 ( not terrible but usually sitting in low 60) my blood pressure 180/105 and I’d clocked about 5000 extra steps .I thought my watch had gone weird but checked with a blood pressure monitor and it was right so I’m going to ask the consultant when I see him 16/2/22 what his thoughts are , they think I’m barmy anyway 😂😂😂
That's funny. I need to ask though, have you checked with the prem unit whether they are accepting knitted items? I have a drawer full of around 120 dresses, clothes hats, bootees etc plus bags for the ones that didn't make it but our unit has refused them all for now during the virus. because they can't wash them at a high enough temperature.
Hi , it probably depends on individual hospitals, I knit and give them to the lady in a local pet shop who’s daughter works at the hospital 😊 so I don’t have direct contact .To be honest if it’s clean and stored in sealed bags surly after a certain amount of time it has to be virus free but then I suppose that they have to be extra careful x
I can just imagine you sitting there with your hands knitting so fast it's a blur! Driving is another good way to increase the steps on your watch. I regularly drive fair distances and find that I've done 5000 steps without leaving the car. (OK I'll have stopped at a couple of service stations for a pee, but that spoils the story, and it's not 5000 steps!)