Bj”rn Forsstr”m (2:203/614.61) wrote to Steven Horn at 10:14 on 23 Oct 2003:

 SH> The stuff we have coming down right now likely will.:-(

It actually disappeared.  It was 13ř on Saturday

 BF> But I like 50 cm snow, about 5 deg. below 0 and the sun shining
 BF> from a clearblue sky, but not right now. From mid December to end
 BF> of Februay is OK.

Whitehorse is dry and 50 cm snow would be a lot.  But we can expect snow to
be with us from late October to early April.

 BF> I can't complain and we try to south as often as we can. My wifes
 BF> joints in hands are totally worn out after 25 years in the old
 BF> peoples care (hope you understand this) and the only help to get

I assume this means she injured her hands while caring for ould ladies.

 BF> her painless is to go to warm climate in, especially, the winter.
 BF> It's also a kind of reumatism involved. Sometimes she can't even
 BF> hold a pen and down south she can live like a "normal" person
 BF> without any pain at all. She is now a fulltime pensioner and I a
 BF> halftime, due to a immunodeficiency disease. I have total lack of
 BF> IgG2 and that is a subclass to IgG which have 4 classes. For this a
 BF> have to take 50 ml Gammagloubelin per week and if you should go to
 BF> a jaundice contagious country you would need to take 2 ml to
 BF> strenghten your immunodefense so you see, 50 ml per week is a bit
 BF> more than that.

I'll have to find out from my wife who is beginning to suffer from
arthritis if a warmer climate would treat her better.  As for me, I'm still
reasonably healthy at least for the moment although my eyes are giving me
trouble.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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