Too much work, too bad health

This is the first day back at work and I am already stressed. New courses starting and so much preparation work.

To make things work I have decided to cancel two interesting conferences: I was going to a conference on gardens and textile plants in the south of Sweden in the end of this month,  but there just isn't enough time. And there was also this amazing, and for me very important, conference on material culture and history in Newcastle. Re-thinking objects. But I haven't written my paper yet and i am not well enough to try and do both that and my work. I actually think that I will have to try and get partial sick leave because with my arthritis I am just not well enough to work as much as I do.

It is a relief, even if I know that I would have loved to go there and made important contacts. But then, what is the point of important contacts when you are too ill to make something out of them?

clothsprogs  knows that I now have additional problems in my tummy abdomen, since I told him when I visited in July. I have now done the colonoscopy and there everything looked just as it should that is good. MRI shows something, unclear what and my belly is hard and swollen and it hurts when you touch it , or if I bend my body, like getting out of bed, sitting down or picking up something. My GP has sent a referral to a surgeon's office and we'll see what comes out of that. But it is unlikely to be dangerous.
Still it makes me uncomfortable and I can't wear anything that puts pressure at the wait or belly. This limits my choice of clothing, both to wear and to make, but hopefully they will find something and some way to help me.

But I did make another dress from African print cotton

Before work started I made another dress from the African fabric that I bought when I was in London in the beginning of July. It's the same basic pattern as the one made from blue African cotton. Which, on the other hand is bades on my coral satin dress which can be seen here. I do that a lot: make a pattern and then make lots of dresses/blouses/skirts from the same pattern, tweaking it until it hopefully is perfect. I have actually made a long red linen dress from the same pattern too now, no photos of that though.