Relative Something

I’m not quite sure why the thermostat in the hallway at my house was reading 20° last night, but that is what I found when I was feeling chilly enough to get up and peek at it to see if the furnace was working. My first guess was that it was battery related. The instructions indicate that when the batteries get low, the display will flash, “Lo Bat” for 1 or 2 months. No sign of that. I have no explanation. I pulled out the batteries, cycled the control off and on, reseated the batteries, and then the display returned to normal and I suddenly had a reading of 68°. Logic would indicate that somehow the reading had switched to Celsius. That doesn’t explain why I was feeling chilly.

Shortly after that, I think I experienced my first ever asthma attack. I don’t really know if what I went through qualifies for the label of attack, but my lungs sure were making me wheeze all of a sudden, and I wasn’t doing anything that I can identify would cause such a reaction. It seemed to come on over a very short time, and appeared out of nowhere. I found my peak flow meter to test myself, to see if the congestion  I was noticing would result in a remarkably low reading. I sure expected it would, but it didn’t. I achieved the same kind of numbers as my usual. Cyndie suggested I try my inhaler to see what that would do. She is a smart girl. It calmed my lungs right back down to normal. I have no idea what that was about.

Some superstitious people believe that things like this happen in threes. I didn’t wait around to see. I went to bed after the two.