Staying Motivated in Winter

All right, beautiful. Okay, next question. What kind of support do you find helpful or wish you had to get through the winter healthily? This could include professionals, community or peers. Well, I try to get out. I try to get out. You know, I do, I'm in advertising, so I do some work on the phone but I try to make it, unless there's snow outside, we try to get in our car and go somewhere for a quick lunch or go somewhere to the grocery store or something just to get out so I clear my mind because it gets upsetting when you're stuck in that when you're housebound. Yeah, I can see that being helpful. Okay, do you set yourself any personal goals for health during the winter? If so, what are they and how do you go about reaching them? The goal in the winter is I tend, since I'm home more, I tend to eat more at home and maybe things I shouldn't eat as much as I do, but I try to moderate and make sure and I try, if I know I've had a big meal, then I make sure that I try to get my adequate amount of exercise. And, you know, we'll go out with some folks. We try to go out so that we're not stuck in the house that much. And I continue to watch my football games. Or movies, or health shows. I watch a lot of health shows. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful words. Okay, next question here. If you were to give someone else advice about staying healthy in the winter, what would you tell them? Don't let the winter get you, don't let the winter get you down too much because you can still do stuff. You can still have some fun. You can still get out of the house if the weather is still decent, and spring won't be that far behind. That's great advice. Okay, listen, we're coming to the last question of this whole thing, and it is what could healthcare providers do differently to better support people during the winter? We're thinking about preparation, communications, types of care, that sort of thing. Well, most of my healthcare appointments are in either December or January and, you know, they all check me back. I did have a health problem in 2014. I went and the doctor had told me that I needed a bypass, but actually I needed a quadruple bypass. So I make sure I went to the, I go to the cardiologist twice a year, you know, to make sure that the ticker is working well. And that's usually in the winter. And then I see my regular doctor. And again, for the sugar being high, I have started to use an endocrinologist to moderate my A1C, and I do that in the winter. So I do early, before March, I generally have most of my appointments completed. So I do go in the winter and then I go again in the latter part of the year.