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Summertime and the Living is Not so Easy

It's thirty-four degrees today. Flies are on their backs, curtains and windows are closed, and those who are braving this insanely hot world are doing so using umbrellas for shade. I literally don't think I've ever been in such a hot climate. We MSers have a really tough time in the heat. We are taking to online forums in our droves, complaining about how unbearable this is and begging others for ideas of how to combat the heat. I currently have more than one tower fan pointed at me while I write this post. I'm also using dictation software as I can barely open my eyes. For many of us, we talk about heat in the same way as we describe fatigue. Both are insidious and there is little to control them. It seems apt, then, that one is a source of the other. If I didn't do the tips I mention below, I wouldn't be able to function and goodness knows, we mums cannot stop. In the past few weeks, I've also been getting increased blurred vision. At first, I though