Warm Blankets

To my friends, for all of my life I have been known for being immune to cold.  When I was working ski patrol in Colorado and they had severe cold hit the resort - I was the one sent up to clear the slopes.  Still the best day of skiing ever!

Yeah, I could get cold, but it was not often.  When I had to retrieve my father from Fairbanks in January 2005, there I went with a flannel shirt and only wore a coat when the winds were too strong.  The Alaskans all bundled up in their snow bunny outfits were all commenting that I was insane - they just did not understand that I like cold weather.  I also like sunbeams too.

However, following the car crash in October, something went wrong inside of me - I can not get warm!  My natural heat seems to have vanished.  It is 72 right now inside the house and I am huddled over my computer wearing what used to be my winter coat - and I am shivering so hard that typing is further confounded for me!

I have been freezing since the accident, pure and simple, I am cold!

So, I ordered an electric blanket from Amazon.Com last week.  But it arrived too soon - I still had to find a wall outlet to plug into!

Yesterday, I washed sheets, pulled off the blankets, made the bed back up and set the electric blanket to pre-heat the bed. 
Come bed time - it was roasty-toasty!  It was too hot!
I could not sleep as it was so I got up and let the blanket cool off.
Three hours later, I crawled back into bed, set the blanket on its coolest setting.
And slept warmly ...

Only problem I found is that when morning arrived, I did not want to leave my warm blankets - for 3 hours!

Now, I wonder if I have time for nap this afternoon...