Chill by reading books about blizzards and the frozen north!
It worked for me last hot spell. I had a book about Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. When it got to the blizzardy blizzardy part, I actually had to get a fleecy throw and snuggle up.
Wolf Willow, by the late great author Wallace Stegner.
If you know of any other really really *cool* books, post them here.
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Well I may have some memory loss because I did this exact same fool thing summer before last, in August. A week ago spent too much time in too much heat on a float in our local parade, and foolishly was sure if I was good for an entire 24 hours all would be fine.
NOPE. There seems to be a cumulative impact(and don't ask how long it took before this loopy brain could find the word "cumulative"
THEN as now it wasn't the physical signs and symptoms that gave the AHA moment, it was when the brain gets just a little more loopy than normal. The headache became more constant and throbbing, the nausea reached a high point over night, and the loopy-brain finally made the obvious, obvious.
PLEASE fellow DUers, be just a little quicker than turtlerescue1 !
So am sitting here dressed in far less than is my comfort level, in front of the AC on HIGH, and halfway through a 32 Oz bottle of gatorade(aka fluid and electrolytes), eating rolaids for the nausea. Am even going to go stand in the shower and barely dry off before returning to sit in front of the AC.
BE CAREFUL- too much of the US is perfect for a repeat of my damned foolishness.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/65-9781568361680-2
http://www.powells.com/s?kw=worst+journey+in+the+world&class=
There's lots of people starving to death in all of these.
If you'd like some less strenuous reading:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780060957377-4
