Cold showers Cryogenics and Kristie

The Crows had just played The Gold Coast Suns. A news article showed them having cryogenic treatment after the game which they said was about 80 degrees below zero (presumably Fahrenheit)

I first became aware of cryogenics about 30 years ago. There was a T.V. series in the 1980’s titled ‘Beyond 2000’ which featured inventions we might expect to see beyond  the year 2000. One particular program featured cryogenic therapy in Japan. People who were previously crippled with arthritis were interviewed, they even showed before and after x-rays of crippled hands becoming normal. One person they interviewed who had gone to the centre in a wheel chair completed the Boston Marathon the following year.  They showed the people in the cryogenic tanks wearing only furry mittens , slippers and undies. They couldn’t touch the sides of the tank because the skin would stick to it.

It was after watching that I decided that I should have cold showers (in the absence of a cryogenic tank) and have had one every day since.

It was 1985. My wife, Peta, had gone out early and I was looking after our daughter Kristie. She was about 14 months old at the time. I needed to have a shower.  I rolled her high chair into the bathroom and gave her a plastic book, toast and a drinking cup. I had a shower as usual and for the first time, at the end of the shower  I turned the cold on full and the hot off completely. It was May I think. I can tell you with certainty it was really cold. I was bouncing and jumping and shivering for about a minute under the water. I was oblivious to the fact there was a little 14 month old who thought it was the funniest thing she had ever seen. She was roaring with laughter in her high chair.

I highly recommend daily coldies. Maybe May isn’t the best month to start!