Hot! Hot! Hot!

A few weeks ago I went to North Carolina with my younger son to visit my family.  The houses there are newer than the ones in West Orange, NJ.  My house was built in 1927.  My sister's house is in a sub division and was probably built less than 15 years ago.  That means CENTRAL AIR!

But even with that, I was so hot during the entire visit that my mom raised her eyebrows and said, "Maybe you're going through the change."  The change?  Just because the house was damned hot?  Ok, fast forward to last weekend.  My husband and I went to a children's birthday party at a friends house.

Yes, it was hot.  It really was, but I seemed to be the only one bleeding sweat.  I did not perspire.  I sweated from my cheeks, my chin, my nose, my neck, my armpits.   As we sat poolside watching the children play and splash I was busy mopping my face so frequently that people began asking me if I was ok.  Of course I'm ok! I thought.  Jeez, it was friggin hot.  By the end of the party I sat in the same folding chair with empty bottles of what had been ice cold water and a half used roll of paper towels which someone had finally brought over just for me.

Ok, all of that is well and good.  It was a hot day.  But then last night as I tried to lay down and go to sleep all I could hear was the hum of the air conditioner which was on full blast.  I didn't feel it.  I just could hear it.  My son lay next to me waiting for his father to carry him off to bed.  As I lay there I seemed to feel the heat radiating off of my son like a hot stone.

I shifted and threw the covers off.  No good.  I put my face and head up to the air conditioner.  I was only cool until I peeled my face off of the air conditioner.  Then I was just as hot as I was before.  I put my pillow up to the air conditioner to try to cool it off.  Nothing doing.  So I laid there as the back of my ears dribbled sweat whirls down the back of my neck and around to the front of my neck.  My armpits ran.  Underneath my breasts were drenched.

My husband brought in the fan put it next to the bed.  Nothing.  Finally he put the fan on my night table pointing directly at me.  Ahhhhh.  Finally!  Finally the sweat evaporated and my skin began to feel cool.  Still I slept fitfully which is not like me at all.  I don't know what this is but if this IS the change I am in for some serious misery!!!