It’s a gray/grey cool rainy day here in Montreal. The temperature dropped and the wind and rain moved in. The weather change was quite sudden. We had sunny warm days and then midday yesterday, the sky darkened and the temperature dropped.

I’m often asked if weather, pressure, altitude, anything like that makes a difference in my pain. Sadly, we can be in a major heatwave or an ice storm, and the pain will be the same. I’ve had the same level of pain in Denver, CO, as in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. No changes there.

I thought my pain level was the same as yesterday but now as I write this, I think it’s a bit less. Overnight it wasn’t terrible. Isn’t it an odd way people with chronic pain have to describe their pain?

I didn’t eat or drink anything out of the ordinary. I spent the day in my sewing room yesterday (and this morning to finish a project), so nothing stressful or tiring.

Tomorrow it’s back to the gym. Exercising when your mouth hurts is challenging, but it has to be done. Two weeks away from the gym will make tomorrow a bit hard. Let’s see how my lips feel.

(The stuffed sloth in the featured image was a gift a few years ago from a dear friend. It sits in my office while I work unless my granddaughter is over because she loves hugging “Oma’s Mr. Sloth.”)