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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Recently, I was at the hospital, where they took my temperature as usual, and it was 96.2. The assistant said that something was wrong, and tried again. And again. Then got another thermoometer gadget. Same result. Called in another nurse. I tried to explain, as I have many times that my average body temperature is usually below between 96 and 97 97 degrees so it's just a little below average right now.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">(My mother had rheumatic fever when I was born and I was a blue baby; she was ice cold to touch - a very difficult experience for mother/infant nurturance. Also I grew up in South Florida without air conditioning as did three generations of my Key West native relatives before me. Possibly our body temperatures just naturally were low to cope with the intolerable heat).</div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br />Anyway, this tendency of our medical profession to view 98.6 as normal is threatening to the health of the small minority of us who have a much lower body temperature. If my temperature is 99 degrees, it's like most people's being 101 degrees. And I feel very feverish. But the doctors don't take my symptoms seriously. And I could be getting very ill as I have in the past.</div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br />Tracy Marks</div>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2026-01-07 17:42, arnold peterson via LCTG wrote:</p>
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