Well, I’ve had hypothermia. As a little girl playing in the snow with yarn mittens that got wet then froze. Very painful. So there’s that.

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I moved a mobile home from North Carolina to Illinois. The first winter right as we moved in, the pipes froze. I was alone with my infant. My husband was on “duty” and not available so I, who had never dealt with snow or real cold before, got out a blow dryer, an extension cord, and and a cardboard box to sit on and I set about using the blow dryer on the frozen part. It took a couple hours to get things going again. I didn’t notice my butt had gone numb and thought I was just stiff from sitting. I went inside and was doing things and my butt started burning. Then It became painful. Then it became excruciatingly painful and I was about to call 911, I couldn’t move. I had what ever level of frost bite before deep tissue destruction. That morning it was -60’ F due to the wind chill. My neighbor explained it to me while taking care of my baby while I thawed by butt. I lost a lot of skin off my butt cheeks and have no desire to ever live in the Great White North again.

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Gah, I'm so sorry!! I grew up in Illinois and it really does get brutal, especially in a trailer!

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I grew up in Illinois and we'd get ice storms every winter - sleet would freeze over and everything was coated in ice. I was in a car with my parents when this happened once and we got stuck out on the highway miles from nowhere - can't remember exactly why, but the car broke down and my family didn't have Triple A, so that was that. I had a good coat and gloves and hat but after a few hours iced in I noticed my left side - closest to the car door - was numb. Eventually it started to feel like it was burning. My parents gave me the blanket we kept in the trunk, but the damage had already been done. Wound up losing a few layers of skin from my shoulder and arm, and quite a bit of nerve damage remains twenty five years later.

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