Way to hot!

So, I have had enough of the heat.  You will never find me complaining about the cold.  Yes, sometimes it makes me hurt a bit, but honestly, I would rather have to add another layer of clothing or some thermal underwear than to deal with the 100 + degree weather and the 99 % humidity.  It is horrible when even with air conditioning, you can sit inside your house and sweat.  I can not imagine what it would be like to have no air conditioning, or heaven forbid, be that person having to work outside.  I walk out my front door, and immediately I am soaking wet with sweat.   I can not drink enough water to keep myself hydrated to make a difference.  Before long my face is bright red and the sweat has stopped, apparently nothing left to sweat, hello,  all of the water is just hanging in the air.  All this occurred in the 25 steps from my front door to my car, lol.  Thank goodness for air conditioned cars and that is actually works. I had to drive from Delaware at the beach where I live to visit my family in Pennsylvania, where I am from.  Oh yeah, beach is not cool when it is that hot.  Sand makes it about 100 times hotter, you can actually get blisters on your feet.  You can not look cute, while trying to avoid burning your feet on the sand, to try and get to the water, which by now is also boiling.  Ok, guess you have the picture, lol.
Ok, back to the car, I am now in my car, with the ac on at full blast. I am driving and in the first 20 minutes of my travels, my son and I notice even the cars are fighting back from the heat.  One of them has caught fire and now, the volunteers of the local fire department are desperately trying to cool it off and kill the flames that are trying to take over.  No one was hurt, and thank goodness for the brave men and women who give up their time to help others, and of course on this particular day, there ability to stay cool.  I am thinking at this point screw the car, turn the hose on yourself and stay cool, only problem is since they have to use a special foam to put the fire out, so no water, just heat, man, we sure don't need that.
So, as we get through this disaster, traffic breaks and we start rolling.  Music is going, conversation is good and we just keep trekking.  My son is excited about going up "home" to visit his friends.  He is telling me that they are thinking about walking downtown that night when we get there, hanging outside.  I am thinking, you are completely off your rocker, but I always think in means of my disease, my meds, everything has changed because of that.  When I was 15, I probably would have done the same thing.    Then as we are driving a little while my son says, "mom, look at that" and points at my cars external thermometer.  It is now reading 108 degrees.  Yeah it is only getting better.  It was the highest it reached, 108,  but for a bit, I honestly thought I lived in Hell.    We finally made it to PA, only stopping once at a roadside fruitstand to grab a watermelon fro my son's friends family, but just that few minutes out of the car was enough.  I was now trying to derive a vision of how to make a air conditioned expandable and flexible hallway so I will not have to step our of the air conditioning again.  Ok, yeah, I know, I can dream.  Well, let me say, the entire weekend was primarily the same.  To hot to breath, but I did what I could.  Sunday, I did go to a Memorial Motorcycle ride for a friend of mine who past away in March.  Over 394 motorcycles taking a ride to memorialize a wonderful man who past away at the age of 36, way before he should have.  An awesome sight to see.  Plus I got to take my grandson with me and he had a ball seeing all the motorcycles.   I am incredibly tired and worn out.  I am hoping the heat breaks, but all in all this weekend was good.  Now, if I can get through this next week which will be difficult due to the loss of a very dear friend a year ago on Wednesday.  I will be sharing pictures of the awesome memorial ride soon.  And of course tomorrow is Ten on Tuesday.  Thinking of the top ten ways to cool off!!!!.  Til the next time people, gentle hugs!

Uh, oh, feeling dizzy!

I decided today that I wanted to go shopping.  Tired of being stuck in the house.  Thought I was feeling pretty good.  So I live near a huge outlet center that was having huge sales, a plus for me since money is always tight, so that is where I headed with my poor husband in tow.  Well, I should have know when I walked out the door and the heat and humidity hit me like a brick wall, this is so not a good idea, but I just pushed on.  The first store we went I did pretty good, got a few items for my grandson for an amazing price.  Then got in the car and headed to the other side of the outdoor outlet center.  Walking in and out of the stores, in and out of the air conditioning, my body did not seem to want to regulate it's own body temp.  By the third of fourth store my arms were numb and cold, my face bright red and it did not seem like I was sweating or whatever it needs to do to get my body to the right temp.  I get my husband to get the car, don't think I will make it from the store to the car, trying really hard to pretend everything is fine and keep going.  So I go to three more stores at the outlet mall and then head to the local Kmart.  I really need to find shorts for my teen son.  That is the hardest thing in the world to do.  So as I am looking through the shorts I become so dizzy, I have 2 options, pass our or sit down.  So right in the middle of the men's clothing department I sit down on the floor. At this point I have no idea what I am going to do.  My husband is not close by, I don't have my cell phone with me, and here I am on the floor, knowing that standing up is surely not an option.  So I just wait.  Finally my husband comes over and finds me, looks at me and says "what are you doing?".  Of course, I am trying my best to keep my sense of humor and tell him I am checking out what the shorts would like like from a kids point of view.  Sounded good to me, lol.  He helps me stand up and I think I am going to go down again.  I lay my head down in my hands on the cart for a good 2-3 minutes and then start walking.  I had found some shorts for my son, but so much for getting my husband something for Father's day, I had to get out of the store.  I decide I am going to look at nail polish quick.  I have been trying to take care of my nails and wanted to start painting them  I was thinking, I will just stand here and let my husband help pick a color out.  I bend over to look at a color and when I stand up all I remember is my husband grabbing me.  Yup, here we go again.  Well, we grabbed a color and then headed to check out.  We came straight home afterward, blowing the rest of the night.  I laid down and just watched TV and still feel shaky.   The only issue I am having right now is I am not sure if it is the heat and humidity, apparently is was at least 95 today with almost 100% humidity, or was it the new medicine my body is trying to get used to, and just does not seem to want to adjust to.  Was it a combination of both of them?  I guess we won't know, unless it happens again and I can rule one or the other out.   All I know is I hope when I wake up I am feeling better.  I would really like to be able to do something special for my husband for Father's Day, even if the only thing would be to take him out for a meal, or maybe go to the beach.  I am going to do some more research on Nortriptyline to see if I can find anything else out about it.  Maybe it will give me an idea why this happened.  If anyone else out there ever had anything like this happen, please let me know.  Maybe if it has happened to a group of people and we can figure out what was occurring before and during it, we can sorta understand why and maybe figure out how to make sure it does not happen again.   I hope daily for a cure.  I try and stay positive about the whole situation, but sometimes it is harder than it appears.  I truly believe people with chronic illness are some of the strongest people in the world, if they were not, they would never be able to handle the pain and crap we go through.  But I also sometimes ask, How much pain is to much and how much can one person take mentally, physically or emotionally before they crack, then add how it effects us in all three areas everyday and wonder why we are not lying on the floor in a heap all the time.  Please Let me know if have had any of this happen to you and what was going on when it happened.  Believe me when I say, I am blessed to know all of you and to be around such strong people.  You keep me moving forward.  As for now, I must sleep.  Good night, Gentle hugs.