Faire Kindness

[MoonWench]

I wasn’t quite sure were to post this but I thought I let everyone know.

In December I fell and injured my right knee and I have been limping and on Disability since. And during the time coming up to faire season I was worrying that I would be able to enjoy faire like I used to. To my joy and delight I have found nothing but kind helpful people at faire, particularly the Palms Springs RenFaire. The members of Ravenwood took me in and took care of me when my knee started hurting to much to walk.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into other faire/rennies that deserve a some acknowledgment for good deeds that made faire even more special?

[MaidMarion]

Several years back I had an incident several year back at Bristol (WI.)

I was carless and my friend's wife had been bugging him about wanting to go to faire (she hadn't been since she was a kid) I offered them tickets in exchange for a ride.

They slept in. The plan was for them to pick me up at 8:30 am but they called around 9 and said they were just waking up. It was almost noon by the time they got to my house, and almost 2:00 by the time we go to faire. i hadn't eaten since breakfast at 6 am.

As soon as we got to faire I was starved and went streight to a food booth and ordered lunch. I bought food, took it to a table to set it down, then went to get a drink.

The last thing I remember was walking up to the booth. next thing I know I wake up to the sound of someone screaming "someone get security!" Apparently I was over heated dehydrated and had not eaten in too long.

Luckily the guy in line behund me was a nurse and knew what to do. Everyone around me was very helpfull, Everyone was handing me water, etc.

I really miss the days when everyone was nice and seemed to care about you.

*HUGS*

K.J.

[La Femme Meow]

My Favorite Bodice: Seamstress to the Rescue

One August a few years back I had a thyroidectomy (large nonmalignant tumor). At first the endocrinologist checked by blood levels frequently but in early October he told me not to return until April 1. He joked about "Remember me on April Fools' Day." When I showed up for my April appointment, I learned that the computer had cancelled it and I would have to wait another six weeks to see the doctor.

Since December I had been going rather frequently to see my GP, because I had gained a lot of weight for "no" reason and was extremely tired all the time. Simply doing the dishes was a major task and I have always been a high-energy person. Somedays even reading or sitting in front of the TV took too much effort and that is NOT like me. That doctor checked a bunch of blood things but not thyroid levels and sent me to a dietician. The dietician could find nothing wrong with my diet and no reason for the weight gain. Her solution: a 1,000 calorie a day diet with no more than 3 oz. of meat. That was not going to happen.

When I finally saw the endocrinologist in May, he ordered lab tests and told me he would call in a week or so. I had the tests late in the afternoon. Before 9:00 a.m. the next morning, he was on the phone telling me he was more than doubling my Synthroid script. He said I would feel incredibly better. When, I asked. Oh, he replied, in about a month.

I was scheduled to vend at a small faire in mid-Illinois but because of the weight gain, I didn't have a single bodice that fit. Ohhhh, the visions I had of making that doctor buy me a new faire wardrobe for failing to schedule post-surgery tests.

Saturday morning, first day of faire, I am set up and cruising the grounds looking for garb vendors, desperate for a bodice. I am short and hard to fit at the best of times; now I am overweight. I saw many wonderful bodices but nothing that came close to fitting until a woman with a small
garb business came to the rescue. She saw immediately what the problem was and took off her own bodice and said "Try this. It is the only one likely to fit you." Fit it did, and she sold me the bodice off her back, barely worn and made for her own use.

The color of that bodice is one I would never have chosen but it is beautiful and well-made and it fits. I wear it often, and never without a thought of that generous seamstress.