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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Way down yonder in the Land of Cotton
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Location: Way down yonder in the Land of Cotton
Posts: 231
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The bass ackwards lizard reporting in. ROFL
Ada,
Well..I reckon that I am a weirdo. LOL. I can't deal with being cold. Not at all. And, I tend to stay cold. All the time. It is awful.
My RSD parts tend to be colder than my non RSD parts. There are sometimes when they are hotter...but usually it is that they are colder. Like now. My right hand and arm and foot and leg are like ice, while my left ones are just cool. And there is absolutely nothing that I can do that will get them warmed up. Not enough. I stay chilled, literally to the bone, all Winter.
But, in the Summer? AHHHHH! When it is nice a warm outside? You can catch me out there, soaking up the heat like some sort of lizard. LOL, that is why I say I am a Lizard Woman. The only thing that keeps me from being outside all the time is the humidity here. I can't deal with the humidity. It causes me problems. When we have spells of nice dry warmness, then I am out there like a shot, soaking up heat like that lizard on a rock. I can't get in the sun, because I burn so easily. I always have, because I am pretty fair skinned, but that has gotten even worse since RSD come along(not being fair skinned, but the burning. LOL)...and one thing I have learned is that you DO NOT want to deal with any type of sun burn, no matter how mild, on RSD places! YOOOWWWIIEEE!!!
I found out just how much better I feel in places that are very dry and warm when we went back out West to visit my Folks during the Summer a couple of times. Once was just out to Vegas during the Summer (Temps up to 117!! Felt like someone was blowing a hair dryer at you whenever you got out of the car! AHH! Finally WARM! LOL), and the other was a couple of years later when we went down to Tucson for a Family Reunion in July (Temps between 110-115, if I am remembering correctly..although there might have been a 120 in there one day. Have to go back and look it up). I was in Heaven! Seriously. The only problems that I had, were the same ones that I have when ever we go back out West to visit, and that is that my ankles swell something awful. I think that it has something to do with the flight out there, the changes in pressure and possibly altitude? They swell horribly, and become very ugly. My RSD one worse, and on that side, even my lower leg swells, all to the point of it being kinda weird to move it, because of the skin being so tight. I also get more back pain, but I think that is because my Mom does not have one single solitary back friendly chair in her entire house. I kid you not! So, I wind up sitting in the wheel chair a lot, with a pillow behind my back for some lumbar support, which does seem to help (at least it feels better!). Plus, that mattress she has that I sleep on there is hard as pavement (converted waterbed, with rock hard mattress and no box springs). LOL. But...It is all worth it to see them, so I don't complain. And...all of that aside, my RSD Pain actually lessens. So, back pain goes up some, but RSD pain lessens. I'll take back pain any day over RSD pain, thank you verymuch! LOL
All of that only goes to tell me even more that I think it would be a good idea for me to move my kester out West, back where I belong, and away from all of this damp humidity. Because even in Winter when we go to visit my folks in Vegas at Christmas (which we are going next month! Yay! I can't wait! Will get to spend Christmas with my brother too! First time in...well...too many years!! I am soo excited!), and it is cold and windy, I STILL do better there than I do here (apart from the weirdo swelling, that is). Not as well as I do in the Summer when it is so very warm (some would say HOT..LOL), but much better than I do here.
But, back to what you were asking....I tend to most always run cold. Occasionally I will be warmer...but that doesn't bother me, whereas I can not stand to be cold. It hurts me, badly. Warm feels good. Heat helps me. It iskiling me to not be able to use my heating pad this year...but my doc has scolded me so much about it, that I can not. See...I over used it so badly, that I put all kinds of marks on my back that took the entire Spring and Summer and into the Fall to fade away. I *think* that they are all gone now...I can't twist around so good to look, but from what I can tell, I can't see any. Finally. He told me that I was "Burning" myself with it. I told him I was not. It never felt too hot. He said that was the problem. I couldn't tell that it got too hot. SO, I am grounded from using it, because doing that to myself can cause some pretty bad problems in the future, evidentially.
Hmmmmm. I couldn't tell that it got to hot. Maybe that is kinda sorta similar to what you are doing...just in a kinda sorta bass ackwards type of way? ROFLMAO! Leave it to me to be the bass ackwards one! I mean...I am saying "AHHHH" to 117 degrees that feels like a nice hot blow dryer in the middle of Summer heat. I must admit, that can sound kinda weird, and like someone that can't tell when things might be "too hot". My poor kids were melting. I freeze in here all winter, partly to keep the electric bill down, and partly because if I warmed it up enough in here so that I was "Warm", the would be stripping clothes off and running around red cheeked and sweating. Hmmmmmmm.
Man. This is making me really miss my heating pad. LOLOL. I am like some kind of adict. It is sad.
Ok...I am going to go. This has gotten long (what else do you expect from me? ROFL) again.
Love and ((hugs))
Jose the Lizard
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