Dave, Bobbie and others ... Both Greg and I are FROM colder, blah states and, having said that, the COLD just really really bothers us. Ruins entire days. Now we live in the highest temped state (besides Death Valley areas in CA) and have become wimps when the temp goes below a certain number. OR without that number and without sunshine warmth.
Putting on more clothes (for me) doesn't help. Didn't help me in the northeast either. I too get that awful "ice water running through my veins" feeling in my arms and legs. For me, the *only* things that *do* work are direct warm sunlight, sitting by a roaring fire or space heater. Or getting in bed and under a sheet, a wool blanket and a quilt for 3-4 hours warms me up to be "comfortable." But, like Greg ... unless my body warms up *enough* to keep comfortable ... leaving the sunlight or space heater makes it worse for obvious reasons. Nothing like an SCI to screw up a body thermostat. :-( If anyone asked/asks me WHAT I HATE the most in life ... it's getting cold. Cuz once I'm cold ... I can't enjoy anything in life. Not reading, watching a movie or anything. Hey *Greg* -- even Dave has been uncomfortably cold indoors over the last few days with the chilly days we've had. RARE. But he warms up easily with more clothes or moving around by being able-bodied. We had ice form in a scooped outdoor seat night before last. Yesterday morning Dave went out with our doggie at 9AM finding he couldn't sit there! First real-cold winter days in a long time. Last year we had a buncha rain. Don't want to see our gas bill when we get it. We put our thermostat at 72 degs in this house - not as warm as other years. The whole country has had a bad frigid spell of late. 7 dead in MO, IL, an AR from the cold (I think I read yesterday). We got down to 21 degrees here a couple nights -- rare. Sunny and mid 60s today! Forecast a tad warmer each day. Lori On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:04 AM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > I just don't know how you north and east guys can do it, living in such > cold places. > Down in the Phx area we only get a few drops into freezing temps and it has > been miserable. > I had my house at 78, plus a space heater blasting me, while drinking hot > drinks all day, and I just could not get warm. > (Though I think it's better not to use the space heater because once I move > away from the blowing hot air, I get even colder.) > Once I get cold I tighten up into 1 clinched muscle and whenever I stretch > out my fingers it causes excess tingling up my forearms. > It's that tingling that is a burning, cold, ice-water, feeling. Northing I > can do to get it to go away until I sleep for the night. > I always have that tingling, but after stretching it get crazy bad. > If I relax and lift my shirts a bit, I can feel the heat coming off my > body, but I still am shaking. > I know by evening time my shoulders are sore and that can make me feel cold > too, so when it's cold out it multiplies things. > Not being able to sit and relax my muscles in the sun is a big part of the > problem, I usually spend hours outside. > Good luck to you all who are freezing too! > > Greg > -- Lori Age - 46 C4/5 complete quad, 31 years post Tucson, AZ
