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[Stormin Mormon]

I'm glad you had the water available. Is it possible you were dehydrated before you began the day?

[Steve]

Prolly not... Its not unusual to be soaked down to your socks with sweat in an hour or less. When the ODT is 95+ and the RH is 80+, you had better be teking frequent breaks, and have a big cooler with lots of iced down water, and gatorade. Go real easy on the sodas tho... they will dehydrate you faster.

[aemeijers]

In Louisiana, in summer, the framing and roofing crews start around dawn, and knock off around solar noon. If they have a deadline or the young immortal guys want some extra cash, they come back late afternoon for a few hours. Even the notorious southern prison farms put the field hands under cover during the hot part of the day. The Mexicans invented the siesta concept for damn good reasons.

[The Daring Dufas]

Back in 89, I was working in a plant under construction in The City of Industry (some of you know where that is) and the temperature was 105° and the humidity was nonexistent. I was bone dry, even my underarms were dry. The breeze blowing in from the desert felt like a hair dryer. At 105°F here in Alabamastan, every square inch of you is wet, your socks will be squishing no matter how thick they are, a leather belt will be ruined as will any watch or electronics you are carrying unless they're designed for skin divers. I've had countless pagers and two way radios die after exposure to my toxic sweat and I can wear only a diver's watch, unless it's a good one, it will expire too. I tell folks that I sweat like a thunderstorm and it's easy to tell where I've been standing still on any job site, there's a puddle.

TDD

[.p.jm.]

Thank you for sharing.

[Gunner Asch]

And here people have been wondering why Ive been doing work around my homestead from dark till dawn.....

Gunner, 85 miles west of the Mojave Desert

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)

[The Daring Dufas]

That job I was on then gave me one of the kidney stones I passed on my own.

TDD

[Gunner Asch]

Been there, done that, several times.

I had an ER nurse once tell me it was like giving birth...

to a baby grand piano

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)

[Steve B]

"Gunner Asch" wrote in

Had to go to the ER once after kidney stone removal due to complications. A couple of ER nurses and I were talking. One said she'd rather give birth than have kidney stones, and she'd done both. The other said she had kidney stones at the time of one of her deliveries.

I've been through some shit, but I can't even imagine that. I bet she'd be hell in a bar fight.

Steve

Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend.

[.p.jm.]

Thank you for even MORE sharing.

[Michael A. Terrell]

No. I started early in the day, when it wasn't too bad out. I had the cooler I carried when I spent the day at a flea market, which included the refilled two liter bottles that were kept in my freezer. There was also a 10 pound bag of ice and a two liter bottle of Diet Mt. Dew. I drank all ow them, and used my tee shirt in the ice water to lower my body temperature. By the time I had finished and driven home, i was still hot, but not sweating.

[Michael A. Terrell]

I was doing that, in Florida except I was repairing and building computers.

[Michael A. Terrell]

The worst I've had was about three hours in an Army dental chair having oral surgery, without pain killers. Captain Hurt (his real name) told me couldn't understand how I could sit there without passing out from the pain. I did damaged the dental chair, though. I bent both armrests in by several inches. :(

[Stormin Mormon]

Ouch, that's a lot of water. And fluids. After chugging two liters of mean green caffeine, know what I mean, bet that affected the rest of your day?

[aemeijers]

Hell, I did that last week, even with a double-dose of the locals- he stuck the probe in, and I about came off the chair. Idiot kept asking me 'do you feel pain, or just pressure?' After I explained to him the lack of a difference, he got out the needle again. Took me a good ten minutes to convince him to give me a prescription for something to get through the next 48 hours- I had to explain to him in very clinical terms why I couldn't take OTC NSAIDs any more, and how they made my face swell up. Damn DEA and AMA have gotten all medical practitioners so scared of being labeled 'drug addiction enablers', that you have to fight to get meds for legitimate reasons.

So why wouldn't they give you any meds?

-- aem sends, still sore just thinking about it all again....

[Michael A. Terrell]

That was gone in the first hour. I was out there for more than eight hours.

[Stormin Mormon]

Isn't that the way. Even after real life dentistry, they won't write a Rx. I've had different dentists, some will write, others will not.

[Stormin Mormon]

I'd hate to think what would happen to a tech who drank only Mt. Dew. That could make for a poor night sleep.

[Michael A. Terrell]

It was an emergency, and the moron Lt. he was replacing was too sorry to restock the clinic at the small Army base in Alaska. There was nothing to prep me for surgery and nothing to prescribe for pain killer afterwards. The fronts of two teeth broke and fell out while eating lunch in the mess hall on a friday, and I had to wait three days for the clinic to open which was only open on Tuesdays & Thursdays. The alternative was a two hour ride on an army bus to Fairbanks on a mostly gravel road that was painful to ride when you were well. I came close to killing the idiot Lt. when he suggested waiting another day for a ride in a helicopter, which was rougher than the damn bus ride. So, I sat there as the Cpt. used what looked like a large Scratch Awl and some pliers to break apart the roots and remove them one at a time. What was left of the crowns crumbled as soon as he tried to pull either tooth.

He kept stopping and asking if I wanted him to continue. I would nod, and try to say yes. As far as pain killers after dental surgery, I didn't start having the prescriptions filled until a few years ago. I've had eight teeth cut out in the morning, and went on to work a full eight hour shift later that day. It wasn't till I became Diabetic that I had to give in.

[Michael A. Terrell]

Actually, I have always slept better when I drank caffeinated drinks. I went two years with no caffeine, and was miserable. I can go right to sleep after drinking an eight ounce glass. It also helps reduce the swelling in my legs if I drink it not log before going to bed. It does more for me than the daily tablet of HCTZ. My body chemistry has been screwed up my entire life. I saw my VA doctor on friday. My sodium & potassium leaves are both a little low, even though I take supplemental potassium, and use more than five times the recommended level of sodium. If I reduce either I get muscle spasms, and a lot of pressure sores.