so now that i'm finally out of the hosipital, sunday night (here) i got "severly dehydrated" i was workin out on the flightline doin normal work, a job that was normally 5 mins to do, it ended up being 3 hours cause of some random crap that kept happening... alls i remember is coming back to the shop and i ended up in the hospital some how, they gave me an i.v. and they pumped me with 4 bags of fluid... it took them 5 times to get the damn i.v. in because my veins were so small do to the dehydration, my creatine levels were over 2000 when they are normally 300, they almost had to fly me out to a hospital outside of here, my blood work was all messed up, they took my blood pressure 3 times randomly withing 20 min period and it was consistantly 130-140 over 50-60, and my heart beat was over 95bpm each time so i was in some bad shape.. but i'm back to work now and doin fine, bein in the heat sucks big time here... you don't sweat really but yet you do it jsut evaporates so you don't know that ur dehydrated til its to late

 

Good gosh, glad to hear you're OK. Similar thing happened to me when I was in Riyadh, SA...

Working out in the sun then noticed I stopped sweating when I finally had a chance to take a break.

 

damn, sorry to hear that, but glad to hear you're doing better Chuck! Be safe, stay in the shade and drink your fluids! You'll be back stateside soon enough driving in your black beauty

 

dont forget about that great water chuck it helps alot take it easy stay safe

 

chuck; do that a couple more times and you might be comming home early!

 

don't give him any ideas...

 

damn bro, glad to hear all is better. Drink a lot of water

 

when i was in iraq, i would give my self I.V all the time just to be safe! it would get 140 degrees over there. glad your ok!

 

ha thats what i was thinkin when i got out of the hospital! lol! i'm stillg etting very bad headaches over it

 

don't push yourself because they are telling you you will be fine. If you are having headaches or other symptoms you should be taking it very easy so you don't relapse or run yourself down. Also let me know if you would like any hydration, sports, or any kind of nutritional supplement cause I am a manager at Vitamin Shoppe and can help you out. Even in florida I stress to people the importance of hydration. Either way I'm glad to hear you survived and good luck with the rest of your endevour.