207 Too Much World

Trimethoprim for a UTI. Seven days. By day three, everything was hysterically funny. By day five, I could hear things that weren’t there. By week two, I couldn’t track yarn overs in garter stitch. Garter stitch.
The projects on my needles when my brain broke Bradford Road (ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/bradford-road), Dark Days (ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/dark-days), Ghost in the Orchard (ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/ghost-in-the-orchard) were beyond me for the next four months. The only thing that still worked was drop spindling. Hands remembered what the brain forgot. So I made yarn.
The weird pantry. Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia from folate antagonism - undocumented, as far as I can tell. There might be a paper in it. Hit me up if you want to write it. I documented everything.
This is the first episode of Your Brain on Knitting - five short episodes, designed to be listened to back to back. One broken brain. Four neurotransmitters. And the knitting woven through it all.
Music: Hannah Parrott, The Feeling (musicbed.com/songs/the-feeling/98486); Waveshaper, Our Time (Instrumental) (musicbed.com/songs/our-time-instrumental/59746)
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