Hi @Former-Member
I am glad you had a better day - personally - I think you have to recover from the last few weeks and you are right - no one can tell what another feels inside their own skin
We all have our own experiences - our own pain - we have coped with trauma differently and wow - this is a fierce lesson
When you had that weird thing happen in your shower I think that was heat stress - we might be having what feels like a coolish shower - but our bodies need to release heat - and that happens suddenly in the shower - where does it go to? Who knows -
I had something like that happen on Thursday - I was supposed to go to see my therapist and I had a shower to freshen up even though I had one earlier - and I did something similar - I grabbed my used shorts and an unironed shirt and flaked near the A/C and rang my therapist to say I wasn't going
She was understanding - I rely on taxis and in the late afternoon I could find myself alone in a busy street waiting for a taxi in the heat - not a good place to flake out
We all know what to do about heat stress but when do we do it - I read that if our indoor temperature is at 25 celcius then we are too hot - and that can happen with the A/C on
Another hint - leave a window on the other side of the house open a little bit - it's hard for the A/C to cool totally recycled air and it can get overwhelmingly stuffy too -
So it's possibly a good idea to watch it in the shower - I never thought about that before but since Thursday and now after you have had the same thing - yeah - get near a draft with a wet cloth around your neck with your feet up and drink water and eat some chips - the salt balance can get out of whack in hot weather too but they don't recommend regular salt - but you can get something from the chemist that you can freeze that balances our electrolytes
What else - ah - where was that brilliant idea? - it just got up and ran off. I will probably remember it in the middle of the night -
What was it - a good hot weather tip - gone - gone - gone
Yeah - our feet - keep our feet up - our bodies can retain water too - and my feet got puffy and sore and I seemed to be fat - my body was uncomfortable - bloated - and this morning I (how do I put this) well - I had to pee for ages - the water I had drunk had been in my feet and elsewhere because I feels like my regular weight
and - and and and - guess what I learned - they have younger people goint into the ED with heat stress and heat stroke -
I am glad you are feeling better today Tawnz - you have walked a rough track lately and you need to build yourself back up again
Hugs - Dec
