Mood- ????
Health- ????
Due to the imminent of Hurricane Irene I am posting my daily blog very early (it is 12:40am) to make sure that I have my Saturday posting in and do not miss a day since I doubt that I will be able to make a blog posting during the storm.
I will edit this post after the storm has passed with the events of the day, but to assure my pledge of a daily post I have taken this step...
Stay tuned for "Gastroparesis, a storm raging in the belly and Irene, a storm raging outside" information as soon as I am able to get a connection!
**After Date Edit**
Mood was- exhausted
Health was- ditto
I ended up having power until about 4pm on Saturday but with the storm connection to the Internet was sketchy at best and I am glad that I took the precaution of posting early.
It was a noisy long storm... not horrible as far as damage goes but just so big that damage was inevitable up and down the East Coast of the US and so many were impacted that this will be a storm to remember.
Once we lost power it started getting hot (tropical systems are called tropical for a reason, they are warm and humid) and with the heat came a fever that I battled for the next two days in any way I could.
I suffer from heat stroke extremely easily because I cannot sweat anywhere but my face and that means my body cannot cool itself, so I was pretty miserable before the storm passed and I could head outside to the minivan and sit once again in the AC. The only problem is that the minivan does not have a bathroom so when I had to 'go' I had to walk from the van to the house and down to the bathroom in ever increasing heat and by the time I would get back to the van I would be in heat exhaustion. All of this added to dehydration and I kept forcing fluids as much as I can, but there was a point that I had not urinated for 12 hours and was starting to get worried... but, even though it is dark, I am making urine again so I think I squeaked through without permanent harm.
**After Date Edit**
Mood was- exhausted
Health was- ditto
I ended up having power until about 4pm on Saturday but with the storm connection to the Internet was sketchy at best and I am glad that I took the precaution of posting early.
It was a noisy long storm... not horrible as far as damage goes but just so big that damage was inevitable up and down the East Coast of the US and so many were impacted that this will be a storm to remember.
Once we lost power it started getting hot (tropical systems are called tropical for a reason, they are warm and humid) and with the heat came a fever that I battled for the next two days in any way I could.
I suffer from heat stroke extremely easily because I cannot sweat anywhere but my face and that means my body cannot cool itself, so I was pretty miserable before the storm passed and I could head outside to the minivan and sit once again in the AC. The only problem is that the minivan does not have a bathroom so when I had to 'go' I had to walk from the van to the house and down to the bathroom in ever increasing heat and by the time I would get back to the van I would be in heat exhaustion. All of this added to dehydration and I kept forcing fluids as much as I can, but there was a point that I had not urinated for 12 hours and was starting to get worried... but, even though it is dark, I am making urine again so I think I squeaked through without permanent harm.
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