hipmama42
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Cold, damp, and rainy is the worst for me too...I can usually tell when a front is coming in that will produce that type of weather. Here in NE Ohio we have a lot of it, and snow too in the winter. I dread winter. I hate the short days when the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon, it is so depressing, and I want to sleep more. When it snows, I have to unbury my car because we have no garage, it makes the fibro act up,and it takes forever just to get out and about with all the layers of clothes you have to wear. Not to mention the icy parking lots and sidewalks and fear of wiping out, which has happened to me more than once. Ouch. I am depressed just thinking about all of this ahead, and it will be starting soon, sometimes as early as the end of October. I think I have SAD, seasonal affective disorder, which means that lack of enough sunlight each day triggers depression and low energy, two things I am already dealing with. I get the flu shot, but I usually end up with colds and flu anyway, and end up in bed for days. Sometimes I'll just have finally recovered from a virus, and I'll get another one on top of it. My immune system is bad once I get sick for the first time. It seems like I never have the stamina to recover fully until spring. The flu turns into bronchitis, and I have asthma, so I always worry about pneumonia. Sigh. Anyone else dreading winter? Post edited by: hipmama42, at: 09/29/2008 02:43 |
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