so, my Mom has been messing with the thermostat as of late because she tells me that it is 50°. I let her know that 50° is NOT warm! I looked at the forecast for today and into the evening, and it was rain all night! I looked at that and told my Mom, “Yeah, it’s 50° of miserable!
The weather can always be a horrible thing for me, but now that it is the ‘change of season,’ that is also horrible for me as well!!! Not to mention that I am still recovering! I am thinking that I am just this sick now. Today wasn’t much different waking up this morning. I hope tomorrow is better but today wasn’t.
I was reminded of me living in our first apartment with my Mom messing with the thermostat. Once I moved into our apartment and turned the heat on when it got cold, our apartment was a balmy 72°! I lived in an apartment building that had four units so the heat was divided between our four units.
My Mom laughed when my heat was set at 72° and once I got billed for it, I changed it to 70°. And then the second bill came and I said out loud to really myself, “69° and wear a sweater!!!”
Now, I am 24 years in of having MS and staring at a quarter of a century in 10 months; I have to have my heat set at 72° because I can’t keep my body temperature at a good place anymore.
It’s not springtime yet for me and I’m not leaving the house until March 19. That day, I will decide if I will change my chapstick because I’m still cold and I have two new Vanilla Bean chapstick tubes because 50° is really miserable for me!!!