Think cold thoughts...

Summer has to be my least favorite time of the year. Why? I do not handle heat well. Some could say it's due to the fact that I'm carrying around an extra human's weight worth of fat on my body, but I know it's not that (it doesn't help though). Even when I was stick thin I hated the heat. I sweat profusely and I feel like I'm going to pass out if I'm outside too long. Every year like clockwork I suffer from at least one bout of heat exhaustion no matter how well I keep myself hydrated.

Today was my first case of heat exhaustion for the season. I wasn't even doing much. I was hanging out at the pool, reading, doing a little swimming. Nothing intense. Just relaxing on a nice summer day, right? Even though it was in the low 90s, this is the coolest it has been in a while so I wasn't worried. Right. After about an hour and half I started feeling a bit faint. Hmmm...did I eat breakfast? Yep. That's not it. I figured I would play it safe and head back inside just in case. The minute I stood up I felt dizzy and nauseous. Crap. I managed to get back inside and it took a good half hour of sitting on the couch in front of the a/c to get my heartrate back to normal and not feel dizzy. All the while I'm downing water like it's going out of style. I'm ok now, but I know I'll feel like crap tomorrow because of this.

I hate the summer.

So now I'm thinking cold thoughts and looking forward to a hopefully very cold winter...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Been a Bit Sick

I know in my last post I said I was going to continue on with my story the next day.  Then, life happened. Ever since last winter, I have had fatigue issues.  I thought they were tied in to my depression as that tends to be the main way it expresses itself.  Also, I had been under a shit ton of stress between taking care of my father-in-law's needs and my own.  When I had the breakdown in late February/early March, it reinforced that idea. Fast forward to this summer.  I developed a new thing: my hands fell asleep way too easily.  It is mainly my left hand with the pinkie and ring fingers.  However, the rest of my hand gets it too and so does my right hand.  I saw my ortho thinking that it was the damn herniated discs in my neck giving me issues again.  He did not think so.  He was positive it was nerve issues in my arms from spending too much time at my desk, keeping my arms bent.  He gave me some exercises and sent me on my wa...
Read more

Not a Morning Person

I would never call myself a "morning person."  Don't get me wrong.  I tend to function the best in the morning in that I am much more productive at that time of day.  However, I think that is because by the end of the day I am so damn tired regardless of what I do. Years ago when I first started teaching, I was always given 8am classes.  Why?  Because no full-timer in their right mind is willing to teach that early.  The best and brightest students go for the post-9:30am classes.  This means, the 8am classes are the last to fill and the students who do fill it are the least motivated ones out there.  Namely, they were too lazy to register in advance which means they got stuck with the only class still open: the 8am one.  Even when I was a student I avoided that time slot like the plague.  However, my Russian classes were only held at that time and it was a three day a week class.  8am on a Friday is just pure evil.  An 8am Ru...
Read more