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Peep, 6 days later, on medication and the most intense of the burning sensation has abated. In other words, I don't feel like I'm continuously being prodded with a hot curling iron. I get some burning once in awhile, but not steady like it was. There's still some itching, and the skin feels mostly more or less like when you have a bad bruise. I think the very worst of it has passed. I sure hope so. You're right about not wishing this on anyone. I don't have it anywhere on my head, but I hear when it's on the head, can be even more painful, and takes much longer to clear up.

Of course, when Dd #2 left to go home last night, she patted me on the back. After my deafening scream, we began prying my fingers from her arm (no wall for me to climb in the immediate area), and color began coming back into my face, she was almost in tears. Not because I hurt her, but because she knew she had hurt me real bad.

Normally, every night I give the grands hugs, and kisses before they go off to bed. Because they couldn't hug me, the youngest suggested fist bumps of love. She told her fist to send lots of her love to me, then fist bumped with me. The others followed suit.
 
Same here! The cozy coop heaters in the temp coops got changed to "high".
Debbie, they sell small thermostats that you plug into the electrical socket, then plug the heaters into the thermostat. One brand is thermo cube, but they make several types of them. The ones we got work well, and are accurate. That way they automatically kick on at the set temp, then off at the other set temp. They end up saving some electricity, and you don't have to keep running out to the coop. They make ones that you can plug more than one cozy coop, or sweeterheater at a time, in case you have limited outlets.
 
Debbie, they sell small thermostats that you plug into the electrical socket, then plug the heaters into the thermostat. One brand is thermo cube, but they make several types of them. The ones we got work well, and are accurate. That way they automatically kick on at the set temp, then off at the other set temp. They end up saving some electricity, and you don't have to keep running out to the coop. They make ones that you can plug more than one cozy coop, or sweeterheater at a time, in case you have limited outlets.
We've got one in the coop, but we're dummies not to pick up a couple more for the temp coops!

That's a much more economical way than us running those on low even on days when it was in the 60's here!

Thanks for the reminder. :old
 
Footnote: Those thermostats even work on our coop fans in the summer. They kick off in the wee hours, if the temps drop to comfortable, then kick on when the temps climb in the day. Benefit from the savings, especially at today's costs of electric.
I need to see about installing those thermostats in my coops for summer air flow.
 

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