ok, the cold is more challenging
 

Last year winter started here pre-Thanksgiving and stayed until April. It just hit freezing this past week and has just gone Hoth.

Feeling it right to my bones, but I didn't let it stop me... it's just slowing the roll a bit more.

I'm hoping it stays a certain temp for the winter as I do find fluxuations bother me. Whether that is related to another issue or not. I really hope the snow fall stays light, though. I shoveled to the point I had a methodology to my preshovel, shucking of clothes, recover, clean up of the shuck and prep for the next shovel.

I think between shoveling and PT I brought on my shingles last March, but that is a guess.

It is freezing here, though. I'd like 60 F, steady.

Cold to the bone sounds horrible!
 

I live in the tropics so it's the heat that gets me. Today it was 88 degrees in the shade with 100% humidity. I can't even take a bath that warm without triggering symptoms!

I agree Jon, fluxuations are the worst.

One thing I did this year that has helped tremendously when it's cold is that I got a small space heater to keep in the room I spend the most time in. It really seems to help my comfort level without throwing money out the window heating the whole house to a nice, warm temp.

Jon I really admire the fact that you shovel snow...that's great. I used to moan about it but I miss it like many things before SFN came along. I'm in so much pain most of the time that I hardly move at all anymore. I think I need to get more active. Thanks for posting your weather related issues.

Cliffman :)

I do best in spring and fall. Winter means numbness, Summer means burning. I probably prefer numbness to burning though. Extreme temps are the worst. And when there is wind added to the cold, that's when it goes to the bone for me.

I wonder whether it's the fluctuations in temperature or extremes or both. I feel it too. I can't speak for heat, because when it was hot in the summer, I was so generally unwell, I couldn't tell one trigger from another. But in the cold, which has suddenly come on, my hands in particular start to vibrate and just not warm up very easily. I mean, it goes away, but they're not very functional. I purchased thicker gloves that help keep them warm longer. Perhaps even worse is that my eyes tear much more and dry out much more quickly, and so itch. I always look like I'm crying when I'm out, especially if I'm riding fast on my bike. My nose also runs. I can't seem to hold on to my fluids, so to speak. But it could be worse...it can always be worse.

I was on Lyrica last year for shoveling. I more pushed snow than lifted, though lifting had to happen eventually as we had three foot banks by mid December by me, 6-7 feet south of me.

This year, well it may be less well manicured, but it will be cleared. My wife helped a lot too.

Yummy space heater!
 

The thermostat at work was not adjustable and the AC never turned off. The temperature was much colder in the building then outside. I kept a space heater for whenever needed. The kids would crowd around and we'd pretend it was a campfire. No marshmallows to roast but stories galore. This was before my neuropathy symptoms but interesting that cold effected me so even then.

My abode is smaller and with the young kids it stays toastier. Once the toddler is done toddling, sweater talk will supplant ease of twisting that dial up. A space heater may enter the discussion once I can be assured the young one doesn't play the role of bug to the heater's zapper, likely around sweater talk time.

I have a bathrobe I received for Christmas the is a Jedi robe. I have been wearing that. Mid day naps have been big, too.

Tomorrow has a forecast of 12/10 F. So I guess I know what to expect for a range, huh?

Yuck.

Hi Jon

Shoveling snow huh! That's gotta be tough on the PN - can't quite relate as I don't get snow here - even in winter (it's summer right now in NZ) but the heat is worse for me.

Today I mowed a patch of lawn (about 1/8th the size of my whole yard). This patch is a new area sown in spring, and with lots of TLC, it's slowly catching up to the rest. The lawn guys are due tomorrow but I don't want them going over it with their ride-on mower yet. Just that 30 mins of effort (in 80 deg. F) was enough to fire up the PN.

Hope you get some recovery time before the next snow is due.
May the Force be with you - that Jedi bathrobe may just have some mystical power. :D

Well, I shoveled a lot last season, prior to my shingles outbreak. After that I was put on the couch.

This season we have yet to have enough snow to qualify for shoveling by me, but with Lake Erie unfrozen, it is coming once the wind blows a certain way.

I really did a ton of pushing more than lifting last year, but it was taxing, likely contributing to shingles popping up. I also was as medicated as I could get before these sojourns out into the snow.

We will see how this season goes. It may be that my driveway/sidewalk becomes a two or three part event. Fine by me. I don't stress such changes any longer, tasks being spread out like that.

So it goes.