Winter

Winter finally arrived here in Northwestern Wisconsin. It took a long time. We should have had piles of snow in late November but we didn't get anything that stayed around until Leap Day! I am not a fan of winter. If I could move to a warmer state I'd go in a heartbeat. I don't mind a little snow for a day or 2 but normal Wisconsin winters are ridiculous. I hate the cold and snow and ice. This storm started the night of February 28th and continued all night and into the next day. Just my luck I was scheduled to work at 6 a.m. I drove the 12 miles at 10-20 miles per hour. It took 45 minutes and it was dangerous but so many had called in already that I had to make it. When I got to town, I found that even those roads hadn't been plowed. We're talking about ankle deep snow and it hadn't been touched by the plows. When I went out to my car at lunch time, the plow had been by our parking lot and plowed us all in. The guys had not touched the parking lot to clear the exits so if anyone had had an emergency, they were not getting out. I climbed over the snow bank into the parking lot well enough. But since they had not moved the snow or salted, it was icy. My feet slipped in opposite directions. Even as a teenager, I could not do the splits. I am less capable now than I as then. So I tried to at least keep my knees together. I ended up on my hands and knees with a great pain in my groin. I could not get up for at least a minute. When I did get up, I used my water bottle to help. Then the pain went from my groin to my knee. When I had gotten what I needed from my car, I had to climb another snowbank to get out of the parking lot and back to the building. I limped back to work. I made sure I told the nurses but they weren't too concerned. The next day, they decided I needed to see a doctor. As it turns out, I strained a ligament in my knee. I got the next day off plus the weekend I already had off and a knee brace for 2 weeks. Tomorrow is my first day back in a brace. It's going to be a long 2 weeks and in my opinion, winter is still the worst season ever!