I missed this somehow when you first wrote it, but hope you are feeling better.
I live by the philosophy that if you don't leave a lot of things undone when you go (at any age), then you were already gone. You live every day as if it were your last and one of them will be (for all of us). But if you sit around waiting, with all your loose ends tied up, you're not living - you're marking time.
You are a quilter - you don't mark time, you create and enjoy the process for as long as it lasts. Let us know that you are back to shopping and sewing and living! We care.