being alone in a sterile room in rehab watching it blizzard outside, worrying about loved ones and knowing they can't possibly visit as a result.

I spent Christmas and New Years in the crappy rehab where, on Christmas, family members tried to make things cheery, but it was totally not the same and New Years all alone because of hateful weather.

I was not at all close to home and further from my kids and grandkids than usual. They came twice. It was a LONG haul and took up the entire day when they onky have 1 day a week where neither J or B are working and K was on long surgical shifts and over 3 hours away... one way. My sisters made it once, but they came from MA, even further away!

So, I'm blessed to FINALLY be home in a warm house with my husband and closer to the kids, but who obviously couldn't come THIS weekend.

Speaking of the storm, he just went outside to do another plow of driveway with the backhoe with plow attachment. 700 yards is a long driveway and a sh*tload of snow. The "snow bankens" are already higher than me along the driveway and surely the roads!

It's hateful out there.