I love these photos

I was Stumbling the other day and came across a web site that had some breath taking photography. The photographer's name is Nick Brandt (from the UK). You can see the photo's HERE. The impact of these photo's on me was almost overwhelming. Why people believe that humans are superior is beyond me. I wish I had the money to buy some prints.

Feels like Spring

Ok, maybe not quite like Spring but today the temperature is about 25 degrees F. Since we have been averaging -10 degrees F today does seem really warm. We got about 5 more inches of snow so everything has a freshly painted look to it again. I really need to go out and start taking some photos. However, when it's as cold as it has been the batteries in my camera die a quick death. Guess I need to buy a sweater for my camera...

Frustrated

I am so frustrated with doctors right now. Steve has been having extreme pain in his leg. Pain that is so bad that he can only sleep for a couple hours a night and that's not even a continuous 2 hours. His leg will start having spasms and he breaks out in a sweat when it gets real bad. I try to massage the leg to ease the rigidity of the muscle but it's hard for me to do it well. The doctor prescribed him a muscle relaxant that I think may help to ease the spams a bit but no one is interested in the underlying cause of the problem. I will be setting up an appointment with a podiatrist for Steve since he's diabetic and needs to have his feet looked at. While I'm at the appointment I'm going to ask the podiatrist to please look into what could be causing the problem. IMO it's not the muscles but a tendon problem in his ankle. His foot turns outward, he has little arch on that foot and has almost no movement at all in that ankle. He can barely walk, he needs help in the shower because he can't stand long enough to do it by himself. It breaks m,y heart to see all the pain he is in and the limitations it has put on him. He needs to be on some sort of pain medication so he can at least get some damn sleep. This has been an ongoing problem for as long as I have known him (going on 8 years now) and not one doctor seems concerned. The only person he saw that has been concerned was a physical therapist who worked with him for a couple months and made the comment that she couldn't believe that he was even able to walk because of the deterioration of the ankle. He's only 35 years old and I don't want him to end up in a wheelchair or something because the doctors won't further investigate the underlying problem. I want to scream, cry and or strangle the ever loving shit out of someone. Steve has endured enough in his life and I dopn't want him to have to deal with this pain for years more.