WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY ?
Dr . Doyle crocheted sweaters for rocks for her office staff for Christmas 2021 .
Pumpkin hat and blanket set for a new baby .
Non-prizewinning donuts !
Ruth Bader-Ginsburg - crocheted for an attorney friend .
Dr . Doyle ’ s sister ’ s cat , Stella , wearing her Christmas sweater Dr . Doyle made .
Dr . Doyle in a knit hat made from the softest yarn on the planet- yarn from the Alaskan muskox . donuts I entered in the state fair ( I did not win any ribbons ). I have knit a purse out of grocery bags . I have made hats , sweaters and skirts for my sister ’ s cat ( Stella hates it all ). I crocheted a cow for my coworker . I crocheted a poncho for my fiftieth birthday party ( and my clinic resident did too !). I have made countless pumpkin hats for summer and fall babies . I have knit and crocheted in every medical conference I have been to for the last 22 years . I cannot count how many baby blankets and wedding afghans I have given away . Yarn got me through the pandemic ! Yarn makes me a better mother , wife , doctor and friend . I am certainly a “ Knitwit ” and will knit and crochet until my fingers quit working !
Resources :
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Dittrich , L . R . ( 2001 ). Knitting . Academic Medicine , 76 , 671 .
Fatigue in Oncology Nurses . Clin J Oncology Nursing , 20 ( 1 ), 102 .’
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Burns , P . ( 2020 ). Happy Hookers : Findings From an International Study Exploring the Effects of Crochet on Wellbeing . Perspectives in Public Health , 141 ( 3 ), 149 .
Dr . Doyle is an internal medicine-pediatrics physician at Norton CMA-Shepherdsville and is the Norton System Medical Director of Lactation .
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Anderson , L . ( 2016 ). The Impact of a Knitting Intervention on Compassion
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