Winter Storms with Fair Horizons ahead

I've always had a love/hate relationship with winter. While I love the snow and the variation in activities that it brings, this year has brought a new level of hatred for coming snow storms. I mean really. Isn't it bad enough that a person with OA is a walking barometer for rain storms? We have to be the canary in the coal mine for winter storms too?! What kind of messed up murphy's law karma is that?! So yeah, we had a snow storm on Friday that pretty much lasted until yesterday so that equaled a whole weekend of peg leg for me. Yeah, it sucked. And I had those weird amputation dreams again where I'm either waiting for surgery to cut off the bottom half of my bad leg or it's already done and I'm trying to walk with a prosthesis. Really weird eh? I didn't whine though (that much) about my weekend long pain since my husband was working all weekend and there's only so much whining my 9 year old will put up with, so I resigned myself to watching Netflix and Showbox on the couch so I didn't have to move too much. That said, I did actually get stuff done. I did manage to do the laundry, the dishes, the floors, the bathrooms and even shoveled the driveway a couple of times to get some fresh air. My arms burned, which was nice, but so did my knee after each activity. It hurt so much for so long I was researching unloader braces again online by Sunday night. I still don't have a spare $500+ lying around (shocker) so online window shopping is about all I can do at the moment.
Ok, so somewhat productive yet shitty weekend aside, it's a new week. Today the temperature is an unseasonably warm +10C so I'm taking advantage of it and run commuting 5km towards home after work. I didn't bring my bregg shortrunner brace since its pretty evident my bad leg is swollen from the weather (? I think?) and it will only cut off the circulation to my foot if I try to run with it on at the moment. I downloaded some new songs to my playlist so I'm hoping that will help keep me inspired to keep moving later today. I'm trying to see the change in weather as a kind of metaphor; I'll run to dig myself out of the pain I felt all weekend, and hopefully my outlook will change as well.