Riddle Me This

How do you tell the difference between being hot and having a hot flash, especially when it’s in the upper 90’s outside? As far as I know I’ve never had a hot flash during the winter. I’m usually freezing my bum off from October through April.

This summer it’s hot as it usually is during the summer in the South and I’m having a hard time telling when I’m having a hot flash and when I’m just hot. I can stand still and sweat rolls down my back – and my front. Once I start moving it’s even worse. I sweat through my clothes. At night when I wear cotton sleep pants and a jog bra I’m sweating even before I lie down to sleep. I keep the thermostat at 80 degrees and it runs constantly because I have a 100+ year old home and trying to cool it is like trying to cool a stadium with a box fan.

My mother and I were having a conversation about life before air conditioning when she said, “I don’t think it used to get this hot.” And I said, “Yes it did. Remember when we finally got an air conditioner in the house and it had to be 90 degrees outside before you’d turn it on?” “Oh yeah, I guess we were just more used to it then.”

And not going through menopause.