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To: cuz1961

And an early loss of fine motor skills that might make building a fire possible.


61 posted on 11/01/2022 7:03:13 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

And an early loss of fine motor skills that might make building a fire possible.

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Thanks for that point.

It should have been number 1 on my list.

Been 30 years since I had a bad case from riding a motorcycle at night in January from Lapine to Silver lake eastern oregon.

I actually stopped half way to try and make a warming fire and couldn’t operate a lighter due to no fine motor dexterity in my hands. Ended up just hugging my engine head for a while.

A ways down the road I quit shivering and started getting warm and knew I was in trouble.

When I got home I dropped my bike from forgoting to put kickstand down, then tried to walk through my door before turning the door knob.

Tryed to run a hot bath but it felt scalding,,, then ran cold water and even that felt scalding but I got in it anyway and opened the drain and slowly turned the hot on .

I was very close to death that night.

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67 posted on 11/01/2022 8:14:23 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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