What Happens With NICU Knitting When I Get Sick?

 When I feel like this.....

 

I don't do any of this:

 I don't touch my knitting. I don't look at my knitting. I don't sort or handle our knitted baby things or even wash them. I don't think about our knitting no matter what holiday or how many cute things we have made. I ignore it all even though it makes me want to do this:

Because these:

are much too precious and fragile for even the possibility of being exposed to these little nasties:

 

When I feel like this:

 

Gene becomes like this:

And makes me go see Dr. Timmy:

 

Who makes me take these:

 

 So I can feel all:

And go back to happily doing this: