We're snowed in, with 10" coming and one roll of toilet paper in the house. Between the three of us (the husband, the son, and me) there's no way to make the toilet paper last until the snow stops. I laugh because pre-stroke I would have been so organized. Prepared even. The cupboards would not be bare.

And I have a terrible cold. The first time since my stroke. It sounds stupid but, everytime I sneeze my right side goes numb. Like for a second it forgets everything it's relearned since the stroke. Hold a cup of coffee and sneeze - the coffee cup and coffee lands on the rug. Walk and sneeze - I land on the rug in a heap. Thank Heavens for rugs, no one would believe it if I've got bruises from sneezing.

I've still got a half a box of kleenex, but the toilet paper will do if I run out. Of course, then we'll have to figure out "what did people do before toilet paper"? In the snow.

I think I'll find a way to walk to the store. It's only a half a mile. We really need toilet paper.