For two days, she has complained about her feet.  They are freezing, they hurt, & then she can't feel them.  They have fallen asleep or somehow they got turned under themselves.  We try to keep them covered, rub them, and keep her on pain medication as needed.

 

For much of the last couple days, she seems to have been on a sleep-a-thon.  It is good for her.

 

Her eating & drinking increases.  For lunch today, she ate some chicken with her strained potato soup.  After she finished eating, I went downstairs & had some chunky potato soup.  Same stuff, smelled just as good, and was very tasty.  For dinner, she passed on the Mac & Cheese, but ate a good portion of her broccoli.

 

Again I find the weather here to be unrealistic.  They are already proclaiming this storm is historic in nature.  As the city is inundated with an ice storm, electricity out all over town, the local TV station follows the storm closely. The weather map they show tells us were the ice is stopping travel & causing severe problems.  All of this is shown in pink on the map.  The brown dots are where the flooding of the river is expected.  Now ... where I come from, when there is this much ice & cold, the water freezes solid.  Ask my kids as they try to keep the horses with water to drink.

 

I do believe I am going to give in, & go to the motorhome for the sleeping bag.  I think I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.  Not that I can't sleep tucked in out in the motorhome.  But I do have a problem getting out from under the covers & making it upstairs in time to meet with the doctors.

 

Mom continues to work her muscles.  She may not realize it.  But she is pretty close to pulling herself out of bed.  It would be so nice if she could be closer to home, but we will work with the cards that have been dealt us, & make the best of what we have.  We will just keep trying to travel between the storms!  So ... if any you have an in with the weather maker, please see if you can't get us some bigger time windows to travel through!    ~ Val & Tom