My aging mother in law has had a lot of difficulty in the past few years with our Winters.
She has lived alone for almost six years since my father-in-law passed and the freezing and snow has started to take a toll on her both physically and emotionally.
Many people in our area experience depression during The Long Wintertide weeks and with her being alone it has escalated the situation greatly… Fortunately, she has a sister who lives down in Florida and both of us all pitched in to send her on a getaway to see him, but we wanted to give her a chop from the freezing and ice and planned for her to stay about a week down there. We arrange for someone to check on the lake house and even take care of her animal while she was awake but think that she would miss being home as well. At least that’s what both of us thought when both of us put her on the plane but both of us were surprised when both of us received a call from her sister saying that she was thinking of moving down to her area. We never envisioned that she would want to make such a extreme move at her age but obviously the change in temperature had definitely done a lot for her; She said that she no longer experience the aches and pains of quarterly living because of the warmer hot and cold temperatures and her overall attitude had improved greatly due to the sunshine. We knew both of us had to honor her wishes but my only concern was the fact that she definitely disliked living in an air-conditioned environment. She would never even allow us to put in a window during the summer time so I could not imagine how she was going to live with it on a year-round basis.