I’m so tired of worrying about the weather, but I chose to ignore it yesterday and paid the price. I don’t mind cold temps riding, but it seems my body has a serious problem with it. I have Reynaud’s Phenomenon, which on top of being idiopathic and therefore hard to treat, can lead to GANGRENE OF THE FINGERTIPS AND TOES!  Ugh. And on top of that, it’s seriously painful. So if you see me standing by the side of the road with my gloves off and my hands buried deep in my sleeves, you know why.

I didn’t develop Reynaud’s until very recently, and though my mom has had it as long as I can remember, I never thought I would. My blood pressure is perfectly on the money. My heart is strong. My lungs are functioning at 100% (I just had them checked the other day!) I’m as healthy as a horse due to a strict regimen of cycling, cigarettes, whiskey, and wild wild women. Idiopathic my ear! I want to know why my blood won’t get past my first knuckle when it’s below 60F! Am I secretly a vampire? Maybe all the glitter I wear is obscuring my Twilight sparkle? HAH!

Whatever. I made it in today, with the help of THE CLAWS to protect my Lichy digits. I’m not scared of you any more, Snow! Just annoyed.

THE CLAW!

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