[myboobs]

My visit to the NP yesterday did result in her prescribing gabapentin for my peripheral neuropathy, which amongst other things, results in very small injuries or irritations to parts of my feet and legs hurting far more than they should. For example the shoes I was wearing two days ago very slightly (nothing really visible) rubbed my right heel which has felt since as if it was rubbed completely raw. Having looked up gabapentin, i'll be interested to see how effective it is. Interestingly it looks as if it may promote HGH production, in which case it may help with NBE. I hope it's not too expensive - we have no pharmacare insurance. This province is in the process of introducing compulsory pharmacare insurance which presently looks as if it will cost us very much more than we currently spend on prescription drugs and will still leave us with a 30% copay - sorry for the OT moan.

As for thermostats, I'm influenced by my British background. At the time I emigrated, conventional wisdom was that if you had central heating, you should keep the thermostat at 65 F in living rooms, 55 F in bedrooms and 60 F elsewhere. During the miner's strike in the early 70s, office heating was cut back even further by government decree, and in the office where I worked this resulted in the central heating boiler (located in the roof space) freezing and rupturing over Christmas so we came back to a flooded office and had no heating at all until well into the new year. So when I saw a job in Toronto advertised, that was one factor in my deciding to apply. After a few years in Canada I'd go back on a visit and shiver almost wherever I went. My wife still has a nasty habit of turning down thermostats, even after 35 years. In her first marriage, money was very short, and she herself had installed the central heating in the one house they lived in that had it. As for health issues, I believe that low humidity is a greater hazard to health than low indoor temperatures, and the lower the humidity the higher the temperature you need to feel warm; but I may have been brainwashed.

Omg !! Miners strike !! That's imprinted in my memory and 3 day week . We keep our living room very warm . Rest of the house much cooler . I sleep better in a cooler room .