My loving husband presented me with an early anniversary gift this past weekend:

What is it, you say?  It’s a cooling box.  Really!  Most people who suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS) have exacerbation of symptoms (some painful, some not painful but uncomfortable) in the heat.  And we do live in Texas, so heat is always my enemy.  And because of my skin allergies, I cannot wear a cooling vest.  And because of the frozen children, we cannot turn the air conditioning down any lower than necessary.

So, hubby did a little research and used his ingenuity and came up with this fabulous cooling box!  What you see in the photo above is a Styrofoam box that one of my medications used to come in, a PVC elbow and a fan that needs electricity to run – but the fan is barely noticeable as far as its noise level.

This is what’s inside the cooling box:

It’s probably difficult to see what’s inside the box but it’s a plastic container filled with ice!  Yes, that is it.  The fan blows through the ice and then the cool air flows out the PVC elbow.  He also has a different piece of PVC that will make the cool air blow direction on me at a 90º angle.  And because of its simplicity, I can take the fan anywhere I need to, as long as they’re is electricity to run the fan!

Oh yes, that hubster of mine…he loves me.