Cold Feet
I have cold feet. Not the 'I'm afraid to do something' variety, but two very cold to the touch appendages at the bottom of my legs. My primary care physician tells me to move more, and I do try to do the ankle rotations and foot taps, even as I sit here typing or reading my laptop. But maybe I need to do more than that. He also made the analogy of older people who are in nursing homes: how they are always cold and needing an extra sweater, or a lap blanket (which I also use). It's inactivity, pure and simple. While I have found that the tapping and rotating make the swelling go down, they don't warm them up much. But I have a friend, K, who has MS and uses a w/c all the time. She has cold hands. So cold that they are often reddish in color! And she uses her hands all the time. So it has to be an MS thing. Right? That was one thing I liked about going to the YMCA pool. Getting into warm water was wonderful. Getting into my swimming suit, not so much. Speaking of whic...