It’s Winter

Today it rained all day. Snow would be prettier, although it can be very inconvenient. I suppose I need to find someone who can clear my driveway if we get a lot of snow. We didn’t get that much last year though.

Here are some winter pictures from years past as collages.

Mosaic Monday

And I feel that I am facing the winter of my years, as they say. I had a rude awakening early in the morning of my birthday, literally. At 3:30 in the morning, stabbing pain shot through my hip and woke me up. I’m familiar with it, I’ve had it from time to time for a couple of decades. It was diagnosed as piriformis syndrome, and it’s a lot like sciatica. I had warnings that that it was going to happen the night before, with some back pain and the familiar shooting pains. But usually it gets better with bed rest. 

It was awful this time, with a spasm and pain every 30 seconds or so. I woke up enough to remember that there were stretches that help. Actually, I do them every day because that’s what I learned in physical therapy. Don’t let that muscle get tight! I performed enough stretches that I was able to get back to sleep eventually. But when I woke at dawn, it happened again, and continued every few minutes for the rest of the day, although not quite as severely because I did some more stretching.

There are thoughts that you can’t help having when you wake up alone in the dark in severe pain. I wonder what would happen to my dog if I had to go to the emergency room. What if I got really sick or if I became disabled? 

Our days are numbered. I have only five years before I reach the approximate age that my parents were when they died. There’s a good chance I will live longer because I don’t smoke, and it was COPD from smoking that killed my mom. 

I don’t want to sound morbid. I tend to get a bit depressed in early winter, but it will lift just as that  pain did. Soon the days will start to get longer. 

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