![]() I awoke to be informed I had suffered a serious heat stroke due to my lack of proper hydration. Shortly after exiting my vehicle I became dizzy and blacked out. ![]() Michael NunnĪfter a hard day of wearing camo and salutes I spent another four hrs driving a non air conditioned truck. Two days later I worked on a different project under identical conditions, when I got to that overheated point, I was prepared. After a minute or so I began feeling normal again. Then, dizzy and ready to vomit, I stood and made my way back across the yard to the garden hose. I unloaded the bricks and then sat on them for a few minutes. I mustered my strength stood and finished my trip. I got around the back of the house (pouring sweat) and collapsed to my knees behind the wheelbarrow. I was finishing cleaning up (taking a wheelbarrow full of bricks around to the backyard). ![]() The day, like all days there was hot and humid. I was recently doing some one overdue yard work for my parents in east Texas. I collapsed at 2:30 pm and had to be Benjamin Zimmerman, East Texas As the day went on it got to be 105 with a heat index of 112. In 2013, I was working on an interstate construction project doing heavy labor. I'm careful now to avoid exercise in the hot summer sun. I did as I was told and felt okay after a few hours. He advised rest and salty foods like peanuts. I went to see a doctor who told me I had heat exhaustion and was low in salt. The combination of the heat and the blacktop created a difficult situation for me: dizziness and fatigue. When I was on vacation in North Carolina's Outer Banks, I was riding my bike up the road with the sun beating down on me.
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