Got a touch of it today. I'm usually pretty good about slowing down before overdoing it, but since having Covid, I'm just not 100%.
92 degrees today, which is the hottest day of the year so far. Had to mow my double lot, by hand, and was just about done when I bent over to re-fuel and about fell over I was so dizzy.
Went inside and stuck my head under the kitchen faucet, drank a couple quarts of water, and went back outside to finish. Got done and now dizzy again and nauseous, so looked up signs of heat exhaustion and checked off all the boxes, lol.
Sitting inside and stripped down under the ceiling fan, so finally cooling down and feeling better. No AC in my house, but it usually stays reasonably cool. Currently 78 degrees.
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Anyone else had heat exhaustion or heat stroke?
I was roofing in Iowa in the 90's and it was July, with 100 degree heat and high 90's humidity. All of us on the crew were in our 20's and bulletproof, except one tubby guy that drank too much the night before. He turned beet red, stopped sweating, and started mumbling incoherently before he collapsed. We started dousing him with a garden hose and called an ambulance. He spent a couple of days in the hospital. They said he was very close to permanent brain damage.