Day V

Feeling incredibly relieved, I woke up so early that Thursday August 25th. The p&n was now definitely progressing up my legs and arms. But I was still in the B12 mode so I didn't give it much attention.

It was the heart of summer, so even though it was early I could sit in the garden to drink some coffee before I went to work. I poured myself a cup of ambition and walked to the garden. Which was the moment the second symptom revealed itself to me.

Just when I stepped through the garden door, my arm brushed past the curtain that is next to the door (once it's opened). I almost jumped because it scared me. It felt like I had just touched a block of the coldest ice I had ever felt in my life. I put down my coffee on the garden table to inspect what on earth I had just touched. To my astonishment I found out that it could only have been the curtain. I touched the curtain with my hand, but that felt completely normal at that time. Sure, it was cool like a curtain usually is, but not cold. I decided to brush my arm past it again; pure ice.

This was the moment that I slowly shifted in to panic mode 2. Even though I was still pretty sure that it was the B12 deficit, may be even combined with some damage from the lifting, this was not normal and as far as I know this wasn't here before! That was the first time I really started to realize something might be very wrong.

Nevertheless I just went to work. But at work I experienced that feeling a couple times more due to my arm touching things or the other way around. I figured I'd better make that doctor's appointment after all. So I called the doctor's office and luckily Dr. Freeze could see me that very afternoon.

Because my manager was away on vacation, I walked by Human Resources. I asked them if it was OK if I left a little earlier again that day because I had to visit the doctor again. My literal words were 'My hands and feet have been tingling for 4 days now'. I saw the worry on the faces of the two HR ladies. They told me that of course that was OK, so I went.