<p>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. <em>Garter stitch.</em></p><p>The projects on my needles when my brain broke <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/bradford-road">Bradford Road</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/dark-days">Dark Days</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/ghost-in-the-orchard">Ghost in the Orchard</a> 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>This is the first episode of <em>Your Brain on Knitting</em> - five short episodes, designed to be listened to back to back. One broken brain. Four neurotransmitters. And the knitting woven through it all. </p><p><em>Music: </em>Hannah Parrott, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/the-feeling/98486">The Feeling</a>; Waveshaper, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/our-time-instrumental/59746">Our Time (Instrumental)</a></p><p>If you’d like to help support the podcast, you can do so via <a target="_blank" href="http://ko-fi.com/brendadayne"><strong>Ko-fi</strong></a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.patreon.com/brendadayne"><strong>Patreon</strong></a>, or by spreading the word to a fellow knitter.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">brendadayne.substack.com</a>