Rug up!

[LewisM]

I made the foolish mistake recently of NOT fully preparing myself for a night of imaging. IT started as a nice, moderate winter night, with temps in the upper teens, and then, near midnight, a snap "freeze" hit - dropped to around 6°, seemingly ina matter of minutes. From 1 jumper and long pants with boots, to holy shillelagh cloud breathing frigidity.

Well, sure enough, next day I had a cold. Getting over that, feeling fine, and I slept with the door open, and got a chill. It's now on the 2nd week of mycoplasmic pneumonia :( :(

Not a call for sympathy (in fact, I deserve a slap around the head), more a call to BE CAREFUL. We are all getting older - heck, I hit 40 very soon, and starting to feel it finally :)

Just because spring is almost upon us doesn't mean it ain't gonna get cool. Preaching to the choir I know :)

[astro_nutt]

Hi Lewis.
Firstly, I wish you a speedy recovery. Secondly, I've been caught out a few times and have since been wearing thermals and keep a pair of coveralls with me just in case.
Cheers!

[gregbradley]

Speedy recovery also.

The atmosphere is a wild and wooly thing. I remember being in my observatory and suddenly a dump of cold air descending out of the sky.

Greg.

[naskies]

I've been laid up with acute bronchitis for the past month (in between two separate bouts of a bacterial cold and the flu), so I definitely appreciate your pain!

Hope your GP's got you on some nice antibiotics :)

[GTB_an_Owl]

hope you get better soon Lewis

i know a fella that has a solution to just that situation you found yourself in ;)

(and i never go observing without the bag i keep it in)

geoff

[Larryp]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Lewis :)

[bigjoe]

Dave and Lewis as a fellow IISer, I sympathize with you both.

Sudden drops in temperature have nearly always been at the core of
these kinds of sickness for me personally.

Many is the time when I have dragged my carcass around, lungs full of fluid etc, just for not rugging up, I'm sure.

Will I ever learn? Probably not!

PS: MY wife is buying me some new beanies, which I sorely need.

Cheers bigjoe.

[Kunama]

The subtropic life is making you soft Lewis, but I hope you get better all the same. :D
I did 2 laps of the 10klm ski trail at 7am yesterday morning in chilly 40kph winds in a lightweight cycling jersey, still breathing. :windy:
You better stay in Qld! ;) ;)

[LewisM]

Yeah, but I don't have koskenkorva flowing through my veins ;)

[tlgerdes]

"snap "freeze" hit - dropped to around 6°"

I think you mean a "snap chill", freeze implies zero or below.:P :lol:

[RobF]

Hey, this Qld Trev. Metabolic processes start to fail under 6 degrees for us ;) :lol:

[LewisM]

You sir are precisely correct. At our latitude, 6° is bloody freezing! :)

Already only wearing shorts and a T-Shirt again. So much for winter. Just a shame the weather was 80% bad most of winter.

Back to jeans and a long shirt for imaging sessions ;)

[LewisM]

Just generic rulides. Seems to have worked - I think I broke through today (of course, after the final chest X-Ray and sputem test), as am feeling 90% better. Maybe the XRays killed the last of the bugs :)

[naskies]

Of course, there's always the more "civilised" approach of remote imaging from inside your cosy warm house ;)

[LewisM]

Not that sophist-a-macated just yet... still waiting on my Moonlite with all the robofocus doo-dads hanging off it.

That's a start at least, but I still LOVE just sitting outside in the quiet.

[tlgerdes]

The other one I like here is "seemingly in a matter of minutes"

What was the real time involved? Face it, you were so engrossed in what you were doing you lost track of your surroundings and time.:lol:

[multiweb]

Crack open a box of little hotties and stuff them where ever it fits. That'll keep you going for 8h at least if you don't self combust. :P

[tlgerdes]

The problem with those "little hotties" that we found Marc is that you need to pre-plan to use them, the take a good 30mins to get going. Not so useful for Lewis who ignores whats happening around him.

[multiweb]

You can bridge the 30min gap with a couple of shots no worries. Works for me.