A RANT

A personal pet peeve of mine is in one of the comments under the hyperlink. A guy stating he got heat stroke and recovered sitting under a tree. He didn't have heat stroke, most likely he was dehydrated and most likely heat exhaustion.

I have been diagnosed by doctors with heat stroke 3 times. The first put me in the hospital with a coma and a 106* core temp. The 2nd and 3rd I was in the hospital with IV's for a least a couple days. The 3rd time I also had kidney and liver failure, my heart and lungs seized and I tore a rib trying to breath through the muscle cramps.

Heat stroke kills. So when someone overstates dehydration as heat stroke it frustrates me. I've been way to lucky but I'm also prepared as best I can to hedge my bets, even when I do get dehydrated.

I really hope the guy with the condition made it. He'll never be out without water again, thats for sure.