Comments on: First RAK Reporting Day Contest

By: susan

susan — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:57:49 +0000

I have been very ill with Crohn’s disease and have had to have blood transfusions and iron infusions due to low hemoglobin. I have to go to our regional hospital one hour away and sit for a few hours til these these get into my blood stream. I make a point to talk to my fellow cubicle/bedmates and try to cheer them up. I spent two hours last week cheering up an 78 year old man who was extremely frustrated with the delays in getting his drip started. He was actually started to yell at the nurses. I started to ask him about why he was there, and eventually discovered he had Wegener’s disease and it was progressing. by the time his specialist got out of the OR and could come to tell him what was going on, I had actually calmed him right down. This is my mission for the 5 0r 6 weeks over December and into January –I go once a week–to help make each of my bedmates happier and less lonely. It is not much fun being sick enough to have these kind of treatments–chemotherapy, blood transfusions, iron transfusions etc. leading up to and past Christmas. I actually felt hugely better helping this man be much less frustrated and able to relax and take his treatment and perhaps go home to his wife in a better mood than he might have. I have not felt energetic enough to knit but have all kinds of plans to knit as soon as I am feeling just a bit better. ( and finish some Christmas projects that were started before I had another glitch with my chronic disease).

By: Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » The Geese are Gathering & RAK Reporting

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » The Geese are Gathering & RAK Reporting — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:02:01 +0000

[...] in a Random Act of Kindness before I draw winners on Monday, check out our first two blog posts here and here. The randomly drawn winners will receive a skein of The Loopy Ewe Seasonings Series of [...]

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:27:08 +0000

Like many people, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the shootings in Connecticut. I stumbled across the group 600 Monsters for Newtown on Ravelry. Their goal: to knit or crochet 600 “monsters” for the kids and survivors at Sandy Hook elementary school. I didn’t want to knit a monster, but I wanted to do something. I knew my LYS had several copies of the Opal Sock Yarn Bunny. I purchased 8 of the patterns & mailed them to anyone who wanted one as my gift to the group. One woman who asked for a pattern moved me to go an extra step. Her husband leaves Friday to work in “the war zone.” She is home alone with only her cat for company. Due to a spinal cord injury she is currently unable to drive. She wanted the bunny pattern to keep her occupied. After looking through her favorites on Ravelry, I quickly put together a package with the bunny pattern as well as a shawl pattern and enough laceweight yarn in one of her preferred colors to make the shawl. I can’t begin to imagine what she’s dealing with right now. I can only hope the yarn and patterns help find a little peace of mind.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:12:10 +0000

Our neighbor works nights. He wants his wife to rake up the leaves in the yard while he is at work. We suspect that he is verbally abusive to her. It bothered me a lot that she was out there alone at night. So my husband and I wait until the husband leaves for work. Then we go outside for an hour or two and help her rake leaves.
We have gotten to know her better. It is really quite nice raking leaves by moonlight. We found out this year that she has been raking leaves at night for years.

By: Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Madelinetosh, Socktopus, String Theory and More!

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Madelinetosh, Socktopus, String Theory and More! — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:00:44 +0000

[...] to have some positives to focus on. (If you haven’t read the RAK reports from the first day, check this blog post for more reports of people helping people.) We randomly drew two names to receive their choice of [...]

By: Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » RAK Reporting Day!

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » RAK Reporting Day! — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:02:18 +0000

[...] Kindness that you may have participated in this week! I so enjoyed reading all of your comments on last Friday’s blog post. I know you don’t do these things for the chance to win a skein of our Seasonings Series [...]

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:12:15 +0000

I had met someone on Ravelry and we e-mailed each other back and forth a couple of times, she had been in an accident a few weeks earlier and totaled her car. We were in the process of selling our car and instead I RAK’d my car to her, otherwise she would not have any transportation to work. She was in total shock when I gave her my car.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:23:37 +0000

Did I miss the deadline? Opps. Anyway, this past Saturday I was running errands and there was a man with a sign saying he needed help. I made a point of driving back out of the store parking lot the same way I drove in so I could give him a few $$. He was dressed pretty nicely, but was wearing an oxygen tank. I hope that my small contribution helped make his day more comfortable.

By: Kathy Clemente

Kathy Clemente — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:14:26 +0000

I knit a daybreak for one of the techs at the pharmacy we use for work. She was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and just started chemo. Thought it would keep her warm during her treatments.

By: Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Madelinetosh, Socktopus, Shibui and More!

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Madelinetosh, Socktopus, Shibui and More! — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:13:40 +0000

[...] you read the comments on last Friday’s RAK Reporting blog post? Wow – what fun ideas you all have had! We used the Random Number Generator to pick 3 winners [...]