Sunday's "Cathy" comic strip was about the ladies of the office who have to wear winter clothing to work under their light dresses because the thermostat is set to "freeze" by the guys who are stuck sweltering in long-sleeved shirts and suit jackets to be "business appropriate." Now "Stone Soup" seems to be doing a sequence about Val's office being cold because the ladies in accounting are suffering from hot flashes. Har-har. Her comment today is "Can't they take drugs?" Gee, honey, no, not when we've had cancer.

(People think hot flashes are just being "a little warm." It's much more than that. It feels as if someone's turned on a sunlamp with the equivalent temperature of Death Valley on your head and shoulders. Not only that, but because blood vessels are involved in the process, they also make you feel ... well, weird. Sometimes dizzy or smothery or both. A lady on a discussion group I'm in said that the first time she had a hot flash she thought she was having a heart attack. Sometimes its scary. It's certainly not "just a little warm.")

I'm not asking it to be cold in here, either. 75°F would be just fine; a few degrees cooler even better. It's the 82°F with no air circulating that I have trouble with.

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