Andrew's Health - Thank you & Update - Fruity Knitting

[Music] do [Music] welcome to fruity knitting i'm andrea i'm andrew and i'm madeleine and fruity knitting is a 90-minute program that brings you knitting inspiration from all around the world as well as some extra little snippets of travel and history and storytelling that we really hope just adds some extra joy to your life and brings a smile to your face now this video is not a normal episode it's just going to be a very quick update on andrew's current health situation so if you're new to fruity knitting we have a really great archive of 108 episodes for you to look through and explore and we think like every episode is a video magazine so there's lots of different segments we cover lots of different topics feature fantastic artists from the knitting community from all around the world and there's also tutorials there now many of us are still or or renewed in a semi lockdown so we suggest doing a little bit of virtual travel and you could try that with episode 87 where we take you to the shetland war week that is an episode filled with absolutely stunning scenery you'll absolutely love it and there's also great traditional knitting there so there's very fine exquisite shetland lace knitting in that episode as well as feral knitting or you could try episode 74 where we cover the very last edinbury yarn festival and also interview the designer jennifer steingass and she creates the most beautiful stranded yolk sweaters so that's two suggestions from us and we'll put the links to both of those episodes in the description box below but of course if you're new you can just meander through the whole channel and watch whatever takes your fancy yeah yeah so before i start i have to apologize for my voice i'm pretty rough so i'll just have to ask you to be patient with that uh the health situation that andrea mentioned in the introduction in case you don't know already is that i've been diagnosed with a brain tumor and it's in the brain stem and in the cerebellum uh can't be operated it's all really serious unfortunately so in the video today i wanted to do two things the second thing is to give you an update on my condition but the first thing that i really have to do is to say thank you to so many different people first of all i would like to say thank you to everyone who has been including us in their prayers as you can imagine this is a huge thing for us to deal with a huge challenge and we are really depending on our faith to help us get through this so knowing that there are people all around the world praying for us including us in their prayers and their thoughts sending their best wishes is really a huge source of strength for us one particular point that we are preying on right now is in making choices about what we should do we've consulted with doctors and we've selected treatments um but in addition to that we really and this particularly for me have to figure out what i actually do on a day-to-day basis um because they're sort of i figure we need to have some sort of normal life and some sort of routine and keep things going in that way but i also need to think about the possibility that i could become incapacitated in some way so really the the bad scenarios and how um we would cope with that so that's that's just one point that we're really looking at at the moment and and trying to pray for guidance on that we have received a lot of messages from all sorts of people telling us about their similar situations their similar experiences and there might be cancer or some other serious illness or some other challenge and these messages are really incredibly touching for me there there are always messages of courage and generosity and there's trust and love and and understanding in there and they've been incredibly um uplifting and so we really appreciate those and we also include everyone who's going through anything like this in our prayers and also that the carers and the loved ones who are so heavily affected by this sort of thing um we've also received a lot of messages with suggestions of doctors and clinics and different treatments and we've had all sorts of different offers including accommodation and all sorts of things we are working through all of those suggestions we we haven't responded to everyone we haven't actually acted on everything we're trying to maintain a list and we'll work through that as we get a chance but we really appreciate everyone taking the time to do that sort of thing and the generosity that's been shown there we have also received financial support we have the paypal link where people many many people have made one-off donations small amounts and large amounts we appreciate every donation in this way we know people have very different situations and we consider all of them very generous and it is definitely making a difference and taking the stress off our situation right now so thank you to everyone who's done that we have a lot of new patrons which is great this is how we make our living this is our entire business our entire livelihood so we're very grateful for that we hope that you're enjoying the 108 episodes that we have out right now um getting your value out of that and we are aiming to bring out the next episode as soon as we can but thank you for supporting us that way and we really have to say a particular thank you to all of our existing patrons or many of whom have increased their level of support which is incredibly generous extraordinarily generous yeah very touched yeah really um it's such faithful support really appreciate that that's really good um the other sort of group of things or of actions that i have to mention is sort of different things we know people have people have been donating profits from yarns and patterns and we know there's one book it's made a very generous donation um from profits um also there have been different people mentioning us on podcasts or blogs or instagram or whatever just to get the word out and to to to let people know about our situation and also just about the show which is all really helpful and we really appreciate that so just for all those things we can't thank everyone individually but we hope that we get our express our gratitude um here in this video thank you so much for all of that support and just very quickly we do have the two um things we have patreon which is really where we encourage you to support the production of the show if you're enjoying it and if you would like to make a one-off donation towards our extra medical costs then there's the patriot the paypal link and we'll have both of those links i think you've put them up on the screen and we'll have them in the description below or you can find them both at fruityknitting.com yeah yeah and it's great to have madeline with us she's she came yeah i've come back from oim for a short time i also want to say that i'm really grateful for how much you care about my dad and about us as a family it's quite amazing to me and i just hope that you and your families are happy and healthy and loving life as we all should um i personally still struggle at times just to quite comprehend the reality of our situation i suppose that's just my coping mechanism but i'm doing my best to spend as much time as i can here in offenbach so i can help my parents in whatever way they need me to help them and in doing so i've been practicing putting the needs of others before my own which both of you are really good at and i'm very proud of you especially mum because mum has really kept strong and been investing all her energy and finding ways to get dad healthy again so we can see him out there on the on the extreme knitting hiking yeah yeah just on my health condition um i have to say for the symptoms the the dizziness and balance problems and also the fatigue they have all got a bit worse in the last few weeks which um is a bit of a worry i've also noticed that i really have no appetite whatsoever so eating is just a chore and i am losing or i've lost a fair bit of weight which is also a bit of a concern i'm trying not to be too worried about this i mean i'm taking it seriously but i figure we've got a destination in mind which is me being strong and healthy again and i'm trying to focus on heading towards that and uh not not being scared i guess by any short-term developments um i'm also very aware that the symptoms that i have are um again not trivializing them but i don't have any pain and i haven't had to go through any major operations like so many people do and i i do consider myself fortunate for that um on my emotional state i think i'm doing pretty well um i'm positive and determined which is really good i do have to say i'm so grateful to have andrea with me through this she's been great i don't feel like i've been great i feel like she has in so many different ways in in just doing things that have to be done i can't drive anymore so anything like that i can't ride my bike um so just practical things um researching things and and just being there as company has been so good and also madeline now that she's here uh in offenbach it's really great to have them there so yeah and i just want to say a few things like expand on what andrew said earlier and that is that many people have told us about their recovery stories which have been very encouraging and andrew says i've been great i feel like i've been really weak he's had a great attitude which is really good um but when i have felt in a lot of despair i have looked up cancer survival stories myself because where people have healed against all of the odds and i found that to help me hold on to hope and not to panic too much i still do panic but it helps me sort of alleviate the panic somewhat and i also want to repeat that we are so appreciative of the wonderful comments that were written on our last episode where we announced andrew's health condition um and also on our instagram post so many loving thoughts well wishes and very beautiful prayers were shared and i think there was i think on the in the last video there was around 2 300 or so comments and um and oh well over a thousand comments on the instagram post and and when i have needed extra consolation and strength i have been reading through those comments and i found them very valuable so i truly thank you for taking the time and and doing that that's been really great it is a really bizarre reality to have a youtube channel because so many people know you even though on a day-to-day level your life could actually be pretty humble and you know even fairly isolated you know which i would say ours is in general and um so it has felt like an absolute miracle to have prayers for andrew coming and loving thoughts and well wishes from all around the world and this is another bizarre kind of thought but it reminds me of the gamma knife radiation therapy which prior to this situation we had absolutely no idea existed and i know there are health professionals in our viewership so excuse my really crude way of describing this this therapy but in this therapy you have many many and i don't know how many maybe it's a hundred or it could be more than that very fine beans of radiation that are coming from all around the outside of the head and each beam in itself is too weak to really damage the the brain tissue but where they all unite together at that point which hopefully is the tuna the tumor it's really powerful and it can destroy the tumor cells so um for me i just keep thinking that we have all of these loving thoughts and and beautiful prayers coming from all around the globe focusing in on andrew and that's a really powerful healing thing and i truly thank you from the bottom of my heart because that's a real privilege and we're we're all aware that you know there's so many people out there who are struggling and suffering like us or way more and they could actually be alone and they don't have loving thoughts and prayers coming so i just wanted to add to this that you know if anyone in our viewership is having a really tough time right now that maybe you might want to just go and read through the comments and just feel the the loving thoughts and the beautiful prayers and just feel like they're meant for you as well you could even sort of put your own name in where andrews is you don't mind sharing because i think essentially at our very essence we are all connected so i think that when you are sending out loving thoughts and prayers for another person you actually get sort of healed and blessed in the process of doing that so sharing prayers and thoughts around is a really good thing on a practical level and um yeah so help yourself if you're having if you're having a tough time um so i think that's about it for today because we're all pretty teary we want to sort of keep the spirits up um to be honest it's been a really tough few weeks and andrew's energy is right down and he's not able to do much work at all and i haven't been able to do much work so i can't say when the next episode's coming out but we do plan for another episode to come out and we'll do it as soon as we can so thanks for being with us again yeah thank you bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] will talk and search the ocean to see my woman my heart's devotion when will i see him today [Music] love to comfort me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm always [Music] thee [Music] me bye [Music] what of the promise to bring [Music] is you

Channel: Fruity Knitting

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Keywords: Knitting

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Length: 19min 32sec (1172 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 04 2020