Have you ever been so cold your fingers got numb? Ever freeze your feet numb? This is the beginning of frostbite, in case you didn’t know. Which I totally didn’t, the first time my feet went numb while ice skating outdoors in Minnesota. It was -30 degrees F and I was playing hockey with the neighbor kids. I didn’t know my feet were numb—until I walked home on my skates, and got inside.
As my feet thawed out, I was in agony—they didn’t hurt until they warmed up. I vowed never to do that again. And I didn’t, way up until the fifth grade, again in the seventh grade and one more time when I was about 28 years old. (Because of all that frostbite, nowadays my feet get cold when I walk on a white floor.) Every single time I froze them, I remember thinking, “I’ll never do this again!”
