A Winter Sunrise

 

There are some splendid sunrises at this time of year - see the photos above taken by Captain B a few days ago.

Tuesday morning was taken up with what turned out to be a fairly pointless visit to Dermatology.  The new medicine has not been approved yet.  However, they did suggest I try another anti-depressant and see if it will help with the maddening skin problem.  I will try it for a month and see what happens. I am not depressed in the clinical sense - being full of hope and finding life so interesting - so I don't want to be on it unless it really does help.

Oddly, as soon as we got back from the hospital, Col was called out on a SUSSAR search - for a depressed, possibly suicidal, young person who had gone missing.  He had his lunch - and I made him some sandwiches to take.  However the missing person turned up in a pub, drinking quite happily as far as I know, so he was back within a couple of hours.

Oh, and a young trainee doctor asked if she could examine me, just for practise.  Obviously I said "yes". It is quite something that one gets asked these days. It's a courtesy that I appreciate.  So maybe I helped her a bit, who knows.  We had quite a nice chat and made each other laugh.

I had to friends visit for coffee this morning, which was very nice.  It was sunny on Wednesday, but there has been snow in the North.  Our snow fell as rain yesterday.

We woke this morning to ice, then some snow, a good covering, which is now being washed away by the rain.  Col left very early.  I am still dopey from my first night on the new med. It did make me sleep, I will give it that.  All I want to do now is sleep, but there are things I ought to do today.