Winter was unwanted and uninvited, but it came anyway. We knew it was coming, but this wasn’t a convenient time. It never is. We went from black to white on Monday, with a 20 cm snowfall.
I had an appointment with my eye doctor the next day, and I had to keep it, even if road conditions were awful. My wife was apprehensive. If I drove in, she would have to drive home because of the drops in my eyes. Our daughter and son-in-law agreed that we shouldn’t try to drive to the city. But Nathan, our grandson, was going and he would take me where I needed to go.
That took a load off everybody’s mind. Nathan dropped me off at the eye doctor and went to pick up parts for his dad’s business.
The doctor decided I needed an injection in my left eye, as I had suspected. I have macular degeneration and have had dozens of such injections, but this was the first in almost five years. It’s not a horrible experience to get a needle in the eye, it’s a tiny one, but I could live happily without it. On the other hand, I am very thankful that a medication to treat macular degeneration became available just before I needed it.
I was pretty much blind in that eye for the rest of the day, but Nathan took me to the supermarket to pick up a few food items for the cats and people of this house before going home.
Yesterday Chris had an appointment with a dental surgeon and the roads were much better. She sprained her ankle in the house the night before and hobbled around with a cane. After she was done there we went to the Cancer Centre to pick up another month’s supple of the pills that keep her leukemia at bay. Then she went to the doctor to get a prescription for the infected cat scratches that she got from picking up one of the outdoor cats to evict her from the house.
Today it’s snowing again, with 30 cm predicted, We had plans to go to a Christmas supper, but that has now been postponed to tomorrow afternoon.
To top it off, we are driving a rental car while ours is in the automobile hospital awaiting a transplant (it needs a new transmission). Hopefully, next week we will get our own car back and everything will go smoothly for the rest of the winter.
Flatlander Faith 
My goodness, what an eventful week. Hope this one ushers in a return to something more manageable. We’re waking to deep snow this morning and it’s still coming down—the snowblower will get a workout later. Not sure we’ll venture out to church this morning though.
We live in the country, our church is in the country, the morning worship service has been called off already. We may just have a quiet day at home.
Yes, our church here in MJ is recommending we don’t go unless we live close.