HYDRATE - Family Woodworking

I, too, have been hospitalized with heat exhaustion - twice. It hits 90-95? and I head for air conditioning. Each exposure makes one more sensitive. Your body chemistry gets really whacked out when you get dehydrated. Nothing to mess with.

And a word about water. Like Don, here in the southwest we rarely venture forth without a water bottle in hand and they are readily offered wherever we go. Kidney stones are a part of my family history. Dehydration is really hard on kidneys. Kidneys need clean, clear water to function properly. Not coffee, Coke, Gatorade, etc. Water - clean clear pure water. I had to learn to drink it. It begins with accepting you have to and then finding a way. Kidney stones are no fun.

Dialysis is even less so and it is a slow and ugly path to death. There is no reversal once you are on dialysis. Quality of life descends like dropping of a cliff. Nothing to mess with, especially when the solution is easy, affordable and available. Learn to drink water. You need it to flush out the coffee, Coke, Gatorade, etc. The kidneys have to filter that stuff out before they can filter your blood. Don't rely on them for re-hydration.

Yep, soapbox. But I have been there twice and I have watched two people die having suffered through dialysis. One a very good friend and another a delightful parishioner, both of whom died way too soon.

Rant off, but easily re-ignited.

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