I hemmed and hawed about publishing this post. Then, I thought about how, when you have a chronic illness, it can sometimes seem that a cold or a hot-flash can push you over the edge.

Here are some tips that help me lessen the effects of that explosive rise in temperature:

• drink less coffee
• eat fewer carbs and sweets
• wear three-piece pajamas to bed
• regularly undress my stress - this allows me to have some control over the bio-chemical cascade that occurs with how I think and feel

I wonder if:

• those sweater twin-sets were originally designed by women?
• engineers are missing an important source of heating?

Finally, here is a commercial that I have come to fully appreciate only since I started to feel the heat.

What do you do to help you maintain your cool?