Cooling Vest

[Sailorsong]

Well I finally got my cooling vest from the VA. Actually it is a cooling vest, wrist wraps, and neck wrap with 2 sets of cooling packs for each of them. These are the frozen water type and had been hoping they would have been the phase change type instead.

The first thing I noticed was just how heavy the vest is with all of the packs inserted. In fact once I had all of the packs in I tried to put in on and almost fell over backward from the swinging of the weight. So I guess from now on I'll have to put it on while sitting down.

The next thing I noticed was that even though the packs were not frozen yet I could feel the cooling effect of the vest. It is 79 outside today and I could tell the difference right away when I went outside for a few minutes.

Since I have my disability appeal hearing tomorrow I can't try the big test until Saturday. I am planning to try doing some exercising with the vest on then. I haven't been able to exercise for a long time because of my  intolerance to heat.

Dennis

[Lulu54]

At least you will have it for NEXT summer.  LOL

The inefficiency of the VA system continues to frighten me.

[Peg409]

Congrats Dennis, My husband says that his is heavy too, but really helps with the heat here in Texas.

[HVAC]

Dennis you can go to wallmart and in the camping section they have these soft icepacks with little rectangles like icecubes. You can cut them to fit. They are lighter weight than the ones in the cooling vests. My cooling vest with packs weighs 15 ponds. With the little packs it is much lighter. Before my cooling vest I used a fishing vest and the wallmart ice things. I still do sometimes because it is lighter in weight.

Glad you got it. How are the deer? I went out to the barn today. I cried seeing the horses. I forgot how much I miss the animals.

Alex