ronald@UHUNIX.BITNET (Ronald Amundson) (01/04/91)
Index Number: 12632 Jean and Buddy -- I can verify that the tropics don't guarantee warm feet. I have bad leg circulation from post polio, and I live in Hawaii. I wear knit dancer's leggings year round. It looks funny at the beach, but then so does my wheelchair. Come to think of it, most people look funny at the beach, but it's impolite to tell them so. ;-) One thing to remember about bad circulation is that the blood that does get circulated must be nice and warm. The best way to guarantee that is to keep your _trunk_ warm. An especially good technique is to warm the area over the kidneys -- the kidneys are close to the surface, and all blood passes through them. So a heating pad behind the lower back can do a great job of warming up the feet. Sounds crazy, but it works. I learned this trick from my grandfather, an old Wisconsin duck hunter. He used some strange hunters' device with lighter fluid smoldering in metal cannisters over his kidneys. I don't recommend that, but the heating pads work great. Cheers, Ron Amundson