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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Please understand it's all relative. We are just plain not equiped for cold weather because it's so rare we get it and especially so many days in a row. Most of the time we get a cold front that moves thru and lasts all of a day and then we're back to normal. This cold snap has lasted 9 days now and it will be at least until Tues before things start to return. Yesterday we had planes that had to sit on the tarmac until the sun came up to get "deiced"!! After one lives in Florida for only a short time something happens to our bodies and we just don't/can't/won't whatever deal with what you might call cool temps. Not to mention that we have to dig thru boxes, etc just to find something to put on.
So now I sit here waiting to see if the Sat Mourning Market people will close tomorrow so I won't be faced with waking up at 5 to check the weather to see if I'll be setting up in the frozen stuff. It's just NOT Florida if we have to be out there exposed to all that weather with a 10 x 10 open sided tent. With winds like that and even with weights on the frames we can't put sides on the tent because they act as sails and we risk the tent flying off across the parking lot. I mean who in the world would want to come out and listen to music and enjoy the Market with 20 mph winds, temps that will only reach a high of 44 and a 50% chance of something falling on them!!
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | I have been watching the National weather and they say the same as you do. This is a long spell of cold for Fla. Really it is long for us too. I don't remember it staying in the single digits at nite or around 20 in the daytime for years.. Supposed to grasdually warm up here next week.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
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Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 507 | A very nice 77 degrees today in San Diego.
I will be in Florida in a week, so I guess I will have to bring this California weather with me.
(Hope all this good weather will fit in my carry-on)
Don
TXN2bM0 Stage IVa SCC-Occult Primary
FNA 6/6/08-SCC in node<2cm
PET/CT 6/19/08-SCC in 2nd node<1cm
HiRes CT 6/21/08
Exploratory,Tonsillectomy(benign),Right SND 6/23/08
PEG 7/3/08-11/6/08
35 TomoTherapy 7/16/08-9/04/08 No Chemo
Clear PET/CT 11/15/08, 5/15/09, 5/28/10, 7/8/11
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Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 396 | i know, this weather is CRAZY. 19 degrees in houston...come on! the last time it snowed here and actually stuck to the ground for a day was nov. 1989, houston made national headlines for having the most car accidents in one day...over 2000! we are definately not used to this weather. send up the heat!!!
Teresa
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CG to ANDY. Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC)
T2N2cMxG4 stage 4. 43 @ dx 8/31/09
tx 9/21/09-11/06/09 cispatin/docetaxel/5-FU X3
PORT 9/9/09, PEG 12/07/09
35 IMRT-1/wk carbo 11/30/09-2/3/10
tx stopped due to complications
IMRT BOOST 3/08-3/12/10
PET 4/12/10 CLEAR!
PEG out 4/14/10
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Don,
Maybe the weather is already getting ready for you as the forcast is for our weather to return to normal (70-50) by next Thurs. Glad you are coming!!
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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