Donna, getting warm.......(was) Re: Margaret..UP of Michican, snow, ice and WEATHER

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Thanks for the tips/hints. I don't have a microwave. Being off-grid, the only way to run a microwave would be to start the generator. lol As far as the cold feet goes---what I do in winter when my feet get frozen is I use one of those foot warmers that you shake to activate. The ones I have are in an orange and red package. The brand name is Foot Warm-Up. I get them in the camping department at Walmart. hugs SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its

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November 21, 2010 6:40:03 AMSubject: Re: Margaret..UP of Michican, snow, ice and WEATHER

Sharon,

At 64.. I'd be an absolute Popsicle!!!.. and much like you.. I

wouldn't recoup body heat for hours and hours and hours.. I'd be

sitting around with chattering teeth, asking to have the heat

turned up.. while everyone else starts peeling off the clothes!!

I've found a neat little trick.. though one has to be careful

using it.. LOL.. Do you have a microwave? If you do.. take a

bath towel and fold it short side to short side.. then short

side to short side again.. then turn that rectangle into a

tri-fold type deal.. (that's the way my mother always folded her

towels).. put that towel in the microwave for ONE minute.. a

minute and a half and the towel will start to scorch! (found

that out the hard way).. but in one minute the towel will be

nice and toasty.. doesn't hold the heat for an extended period

of time, but sometimes one round of nuking the towel will work,

sometimes it takes a time or two.. but wrap that warm towel

around your feet (I put mine around the leg that goes into spasm

most of the time.) and in no time you should be feeling the

difference in your body.. don't know what it is, but it does

work for me.. It might work for you too...

I used to get into a nice warm/hot bath and soak for awhile, and

that always worked.. get everything nice and toasty from the

warm/hot water.. then get out and dry off quickly and jump into

a set of sweats to retain the heat from the water.. but seeing

as I would now have to be POURED out of the tub if I did that..

the towel seems to be a good replacement..

These days.. seems like when my feet get cold.. I'm done in..

and I have a very very hard time getting them warm again.. I

suppose there is a good possibility that the heat from that

towel reminds the blood in my body that it really does need to

make the extended trip down and around into my toes and such..

LOL.. And just putting on a pair of heavy hunting socks, doesn't

do the trick either..

I hate being cold.. and I really believe that I want to live in

a place like Miami, Phoenix might work.. Houston.. anyplace

where it's warmer than warm.. even maybe hot.. cooling off sure

seems to be easier than warming up!

HUGS

|)onna

Do you use ice treds on your shoes? Where did

you get the ice grip for your cane? That would come in handy

here. I don't do well when my body gets cold. For instance

today it was not cold (got up to 64) but I got a chill and have

been trembling all afternoon and this evening.

hugs

Sharon

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From:

Argaret Cote

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Sent: Fri,

November 19, 2010 11:54:46 AM

Subject:

Re: Margaret..UP of Michican, snow, ice and

WEATHER

Hi Sharon,

Yes I have snow here. I live in Bessemer which is

about 30 miles south east of Lake Superior.

I have a hard time with the winters up here. I try and

stay in as much as I can. If I have to go out I always

have a cane that has ice grip on the end.

Margaret A. Cote

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Sharon

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Fri, November 19, 2010 12:26:24 PM

Subject:

Margaret..UP of Michican, snow, ice and

WEATHER

Margaret

I had forgotten you were in the UP. How is your

weather now? Are you having snow yet? I used to

know a girl from the UP. When I was in high

school she and her parents were snowbirds (winter

visitors) to Mesa, Arizona. She loved coming to

the warm part of Arizona for winter. At that time

I couldn't even begin to understand what it was

like to live in all that cold weather. Later I

moved here to my mountains and then to Alaska and

now back to my mountains. Now I GET the snow and

ice and cold. lol But back then it was so

foreign to me. How do you do in the winter?

hugs

Sharon

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Welcome

to the group fufi143. I live in the UP of

MI.

Margaret A. Cote

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SPMS out of remission for 3 yrs no

conventional meds have worked RRMS

17

yrs no problems severe numbness head

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I've used

those.. only it was during hunting season, and when Bill was

taking Earl with him, and leaving me to sit under a tree.. with

a bear somewhere close by (you really can smell a bear.. and

they stink).. but if you ever find yourself parked under a tree,

smelling a stinky bear.. if you sit still, they will walk on by

and not bother you.. At least they didn't bother me.. Good thing

too, because even though I wasn't yet diagnosed my tree climbing

skills had long since gone bye-bye.. (not to mention there

weren't any low hanging branches to grab hold of anyway.. AND

the rifle I held in my hand, was going to just barely put a deer

down.. and would only have served to make the bear mad if I

stung him with a bullet - No, I wasn't aware of any of these

facts when I thought it would be a "great" idea to go hunting

with the kid & the hubby as a "family thing"... LOL)..

Those heat pads, did keep my feet warm for a couple hours inside

those hunting boots.

(once they were finished warming, and in what seemed like six

foot of snow.. back to cold I went.. never could understand just

HOW the hubby or kid kept their feet warm.. but I supposed the

fact that they didn't have MS might have had something to do

with that.)

Sounds like a great idea for keeping things warm Sharon...

especially if you have them inside slippers or some other form

of keepa-the-toes-warm foot wear.. I just sit on the bed, trusty

laptop beside me, and cover everything from the waist down with

a quilt or comforter -- though the quilt seems to work better

than the comforter. Usually works too!

HUGS

|)onna

Thanks for the tips/hints. I don't have a

microwave. Being off-grid, the only way to run a microwave

would be to start the generator. lol

As far as the cold feet goes---what I do in winter when my feet

get frozen is I use one of those foot warmers that you shake to

activate. The ones I have are in an orange and red package.

The brand name is Foot Warm-Up. I get them in the camping

department at Walmart.

hugs

Sharon

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