I don’t expect to climb a mountain but knitting puts my heart rate up!

[Hazel1010]

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 ?

[RufusScamp]

Are you one of the demon knitters of Dent?

[Hazel1010 in reply to RufusScamp]

😂😂 don’t know but I now how to cheat on my exercise step count 😂😂😂😂

[Becksagogo in reply to Hazel1010]

Thank you for the tip! We will all be bending the truth with our step counters!

[Hazel1010 in reply to Hazel1010]

Ps , had to look that up and it was very interesting too 😊

[Nettekin]

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

[Hazel1010]

Don’t know about smoke but the air is slightly blue sometimes with complicated patterns 😂😂😂

[rizal]

Haha thank you for the post, had me chuckling

[dunestar]

Yes, knitting can be dangerous. 😃 Gave me thumb tendonitis.

[Hazel1010 in reply to dunestar]

Getting to th stage I’m frightened to move 😂😂

[Cavehill14]

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!

[Hazel1010 in reply to Cavehill14]

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 😂😂😂

[Qualipop]

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.

[Hazel1010 in reply to Qualipop]

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

[Qualipop in reply to Hazel1010]

Mine are all washed in baby soap and sealed up in bags but I rang them and they point blank refused so they are just all waiting- a drawer full. IT probably is down to individual hospitals but this can't last forever.

[Alison_L]

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!)