i just experiened a miracle and there's no one around to share it with!

I'm in my 85th year, my memory is problematic, and I use Adobe Suite for most of my 'creations'. I set up my Etsy store and created most of my patterns in the last century ...

My church and church 'family' are a big part of my life and I still do many creative things for them. 

My problem is that I don't do any of the things that I used to do, very often these days and - when I try, I can't remember how. I get nervous when thinking about doing something and I think that contributes to the problem. (Passwords are the bane of my existence, but that's another story.}

Today, I was trying to make a small correction to a pattern I printed in 2007. Sounds simple, doesn't it?

Well ... when I tried to open the pdf in Photoshop I got this message. "PDFL Initialization failed". I've seen this message before, but don't remember it being a big problem. Today it was. 

Photoshop wouldn't budge. InDesign opened it, but it wasn't editable and, the typed instructions looked like hieroglyphics. 

Googling it didn't help. While I was pondering where I should go next, it occurred to me that I also have Illustrator. I never learned to use it, but I've tried everything else, so why not? I launched Adobe Illustrator, opened the pattern file and 'Voila', it popped up!

It is clear and editable, and I didn't even have to erase and retype the error. I used 'find and replace', not expecting it to work, as it wasn't in the large text block, but on a pattern piece. It found the words I needed and fixed the error! 

I was in shock for a few minutes, then went to find someone to tell. I can't begin to tell you how exciting this is for me. It opens my ability to fix many typos and errors simply. I'm ecstatic!

I just hope I remember.