State Of The Me
May. 10th, 2011 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo, I just checked my Facebook and saw a post by my mother:
All of a sudden, the past couple of days (which have been fairly miserable for me) kind of fell into place.
One of the things my mitochondrial condition does is make me vulnerable to high temperatures. My body's basic inefficiency makes it tend to run hot to begin with, and it's not any better at cooling itself than it is anything else. I had some coping strategies in mind for the height of summer after last year, but I hadn't been really thinking about implementing them because it has been such a cool spring. Just a week... literally one week ago, last Tuesday, we were having overnight temperatures of 34 degrees. Two degrees above freezing.
Today?
Temperature peaked at 97.
So on Sunday, my loft was still basically still arranged for winter when it started to warm up. I did get the window a/c set up, but only after the attic started to heat up. I didn't do much else, as I figured the a/c would be enough... I did cotton on to the fact that this week was shaping up to be warmer than last week, but I figured it was going to be May-warm. You know, eighties.
To make a long story short*, I ended up having an extremely uncomfortable and sleepless night on Sunday and an extremely sick and malaisey-feeling Monday. Monday night I made a few more adjustments to things, got my room a little better ventilated. Slept a bit better.
Today I realized the a/c wasn't cutting it. It's just not powerful enough to make a real dent in cooling a space as big as the entire attic when it's got the sun beating down on the roof all day. So I took two of my giant fleece blankets and tacked them up on either side of the support thing that roughly bisects the room. Et voila, a more reasonable-sized space for the a/c to contend with.
That was probably more physical exertion in a hot room than I should have undertook. When I did it I had no idea how hot it really was (I'm bad at telling that)... I was thinking, "Wow, if it's this uncomfortable this early on in May, I should do it now before later in the summer when we hit the nineties."
The results (of both my overexertion and the cocooning of one end of the room) are already noticeable. Happily, we're in for rain the next few days that will cool things down a bit. In the meantime, I need to hydrate a bit and take it easy.
So we complained about the cold all through April, wanting warmer weather...and now second day of record-setting 90s on the temps. 97 F. on May 10! Guess this is the weather's way of saying be careful what you ask for.
All of a sudden, the past couple of days (which have been fairly miserable for me) kind of fell into place.
One of the things my mitochondrial condition does is make me vulnerable to high temperatures. My body's basic inefficiency makes it tend to run hot to begin with, and it's not any better at cooling itself than it is anything else. I had some coping strategies in mind for the height of summer after last year, but I hadn't been really thinking about implementing them because it has been such a cool spring. Just a week... literally one week ago, last Tuesday, we were having overnight temperatures of 34 degrees. Two degrees above freezing.
Today?
Temperature peaked at 97.
So on Sunday, my loft was still basically still arranged for winter when it started to warm up. I did get the window a/c set up, but only after the attic started to heat up. I didn't do much else, as I figured the a/c would be enough... I did cotton on to the fact that this week was shaping up to be warmer than last week, but I figured it was going to be May-warm. You know, eighties.
To make a long story short*, I ended up having an extremely uncomfortable and sleepless night on Sunday and an extremely sick and malaisey-feeling Monday. Monday night I made a few more adjustments to things, got my room a little better ventilated. Slept a bit better.
Today I realized the a/c wasn't cutting it. It's just not powerful enough to make a real dent in cooling a space as big as the entire attic when it's got the sun beating down on the roof all day. So I took two of my giant fleece blankets and tacked them up on either side of the support thing that roughly bisects the room. Et voila, a more reasonable-sized space for the a/c to contend with.
That was probably more physical exertion in a hot room than I should have undertook. When I did it I had no idea how hot it really was (I'm bad at telling that)... I was thinking, "Wow, if it's this uncomfortable this early on in May, I should do it now before later in the summer when we hit the nineties."
The results (of both my overexertion and the cocooning of one end of the room) are already noticeable. Happily, we're in for rain the next few days that will cool things down a bit. In the meantime, I need to hydrate a bit and take it easy.