ALMOST LOST MY SON TO HEAT STROKE TODAY

["prima"Donna]

Originally Posted by v6sonoma

Yeah it was a close one. Lesson learned! Perhaps it's a good excuse to buy a color matching Camaro aluminum water bottle. Stay cool!

I like that idea!!!...keep that Camaro colored water bottle at all times!!!

["prima"Donna]

Originally Posted by djsnoflake

Lots of people don't think heat stroke is serious. Let this be a lesson, and best wished to you, Donna

Thank you so much!!!...I cannot believe what a positive response I have gotten from everybody...you guys/gals are the best!!!...

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by "prima"Donna

Just a 'friendly reminder' now that summer is here again...

I am just looking out for all of you and telling you to be very careful when you are out there washing and waxing and detailing your cars in the heat and humidity...

I care about my C5 family and I hope to spare all of you the scary experience I had with my son last summer...:(

Just be careful out there or I might have to 'smack you upside the head'...

'Now back to your regularly scheduled C5 viewing and posting'...

As a paramedic of over 25 years experience, I understand what you went through... Not so much personally, but professionally...

But...........

I do have a question......


In all my years of practice, and in all my training....
















I've never heard of treating heat exhaustion, heat stroke or any other heat related malady with a smack to the side of the head... I've asked a few fellow medics and they haven't either...

Is there something you would care to share with us...??? You may be onto something... Jostle the Medulla Oblongata with a smack to the side of the head, kinda like kick starting the regulatory system...

Thanks for the reminder though I've been cold and wet most of the day... I don't know who told you it's summertime, but I'm freezing... This may have something to do with me being well south of the Equator though.

We have 50 knot winds gusting to 70, and blowing rain... This wind is blowing untouched from the South Pole....My only risk of a heat injury is from spilling some really hot coffee on myself... The rig is rocking quite a bit, with the 25 foot waves...

["prima"Donna]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

As a paramedic of over 25 years experience, I understand what you went through... Not so much personally, but professionally...

But...........

I do have a question......


In all my years of practice, and in all my training....
















I've never heard of treating heat exhaustion, heat stroke or any other heat related malady with a smack to the side of the head... I've asked a few fellow medics and they haven't either...

Is there something you would care to share with us...??? You may be onto something... Jostle the Medulla Oblongata with a smack to the side of the head, kinda like kick starting the regulatory system...

Thanks for the reminder though I've been cold and wet most of the day... I don't know who told you it's summertime, but I'm freezing... This may have something to do with me being well south of the Equator though.

We have 50 knot winds gusting to 70, and blowing rain... This wind is blowing untouched from the South Pole....My only risk of a heat injury is from spilling some really hot coffee on myself... The rig is rocking quite a bit, with the 25 foot waves...

LOL. you are just too funny, Robert!!!....just be careful yourself...watch out for hypothermia...I wouldn't want to have to 'smack YOU upside the head' either...lol...

BTW, thank you for your service as a paramedic...that is a tough job, as well as the job you are doing right now too...