What's the worst sun burn or heat stroke you've ever had?
Despite putting on sun screen I've managed to burn my arms here these last 2 days. I tan easily usually so I know these burns will turn brown soon but dam it hurts right now. I've gotten a little too much sun in general last 2 days. I remember I did the same when we were in Belize.
However because I tend to tan even burns tend to brown quickly for me. Which isn't to say it's safer. My father is a different story. When we were in Belize he picked up a fierce burn while snorkeling. His whole back was red as a beet, which later blistered and peeled. On top of this he got what I think was minor sun stroke. He had a fever that night and started shivering. Not good. But of course it could have been worse. I remember seeing a tourist in Belize who looked like he had just jumped out of a lobster pot.
What's your worst encounter with mother Sun?
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One Friday night, a bunch of us rented two cars and drove down to
Canyon Lake... an Army resort area.
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Saturday morning, I had two beers for breakfast and fell asleep
while sunbathing. NO sunscreen!!!
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I woke up about one in severe pain. The Army had told us that
they could (and would) prosecute us for destruction of gov't
property if we let this happen to ourselves. Turns out that they
never did... but used that threat to keep us more careful.
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You know me -- never the brightest HoHo in the package -- I
believed them, so I didn't go on sick call when I went back. I'm
lucky I didn't get an infection.
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I had second-degree sunburn on most of my front. It was
agonizing to do all the physical things required of us during the
next week. I could peel my chest in one solid sheet. I could press
my finger into my arm and fluid would seep out from another
area of my arm. My arms had scars after every bit of redness
disappeared that didn't totally fade away for over three years.
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My lesson learned: If you're going to be in Texas during the
late spring/early summer, don't have two beers for breakfast
and fall asleep in the sun on the beach... do it in your hotel's lobby.
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I've heard sun burns could get this bad but never knew anyone it happened to. You are right you were lucky you didn't get an infection. I can just imagine the pain of that.
However being in the army you must have been the but of a few jokes for this, no?
Reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer "cooks himself" after falling asleep on the roof of his apartment after applying butter to his whole body. 
I didn't even know a sunburn could do that, to be honest. 
I always forget that the sun burns even when it's cold outside =DUH !
last time was on the beach in Big Sur in the winter-burned my face so bad I almost couldn't close my eyes for a few days .
Lol, that must have hurt. 
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Sunbathed naked for the first time in my life in my backyard.
My wife got mad at me for what I'm not sure, I'd been drinking, passed out, so she left me out there with my lily-white ass to the sky and burned it so bad I missed 3 days of work - having to sleep on my stomach,
COULDN'T put any clothes over my butt for 4 days . . . had to stand to eat - - -
spent days just laying on my stomach with a damp washcloth on my butt for pain.
yup that was the worst
Once again,
1980 - passed out at a Bluegrass concert (shorts on this time) and burnt the left side of my face so bad it looked like a fire injury. - had to use a gel of some sort for over a week on it - still,
that side of my face is much more sensitive to the sun.
Ass is ok
CC
1. 14 years old went to Cape Cod with my friend and her family. My friend and I fell asleep on the beach, with short-shorts and shirts on, face down with our hands pointed toward the surf line. Awakened when the rising tide hit our fingers! The backs of our legs, especially thighs and behind our knees, did not like sitting on the ride home the next day.
2. Sunburned eyeballs skiing in Sierra mountains w/o sunglasses. Stinging eyes for two or three days. 
3. Went to lie in sun at cousins' pool on empty stomach. Began to feel really shaky and lightheaded, then had to crawl up the dozen+ stairs from the pool deck below the house to the refrigerator and get some orange juice and lie on the floor until I felt like I wouldn't collapse if I stood up.
Live & learn. 
One of our instructors arranged for his students to spend a day water-skying.
I had never experienced the thrill of being pulled over the water by anything.
I was ecstatic.
I skied for hours on a mountain lake with a cloudless sky.
The next day I was in agony in my barracks bunk, even my armpits were burned.
OMG! 
difficult for me to tan, but my BROTHER, when we went to Hawaii (as mentioned) after my h.s. graduation, we flew separately, arrived without folks, and brother went into water at Waikiki for ? 3-4 hours? and burned til pretty crispy, including face. Was that way for whole vaca! Poor kid!
STILL had a good vaca, and enjoyed Poipu!
...went to a friends house to swim in their pool. Afterward, we put our towels down on the driveway so we could lie on our stomachs and dry off.
And promptly fell asleep.
In mid-July.
His mom finally looked out and saw us, ran out and woke us up.
Major lobster-tan from the backs of our necks to the soles of our feet.
I still have scars from the blisters, almost 50 years later. 
