Over all i am doing much better.    I tried to knit a pattern called fan and feather.  I was unable to deal with the alternating stiches.  I tried to use markers to seperate the changes in the row but for some reason that did not help.  I could not keep up with the stich changes.  so i am a little sad.  I unraveld the attempt back into a ball of yarn.  I am sad.  I hope to find something happy to make with the yarn; for the yarn has a sad memory now:  it reminds me that I could not do the fan and feather pattern... at least not yet;  i will try again in another 6 months or so.   I am also having pain tonight of around a 3.  I am close to having to take something.  But i have been without pain enough so that i have not had to take any pain meds for four or five days.   I am sketching roses.  The sketching and pilimanary paintings are going well.  Going to take lots of patients and time on my part and lots of resting inbetween. I posted on my photo page the results of the eye test.  It is a print out of my field of vision.  The Light areas to the left are where I have a degree of vison;  the dark areas are very low vison and the black is total blindness.  I am grateful that I have vison: i am making the most of it when i paint.  So grateful.  Well i was not able to make the fan and feather pattern but I did recently knitt a scarf in the moss stich.  It took 8 trys to finally get it right.  But i did it.  I am going to post a picture of the scarf.  My husband took a picture with me wearing it but the picture did not turn out.  I was all dressed up for a xmas party and wraped the scarf around my neck for the picture.  We will try again.  I will post a picture soon.   take care