heat exhaustion

much much more closer to actual heat stroke than any time before)... there were a few moments today when i felt both kidneys ready to explode, which could very well have been one of the final acts of heat exhaustion, which happened just after i went into a port-a-potty that was extremely hot (not that it looked good, but the heat inside was intense, like probably 130 degrees or something) and i was already toying with heat exhaustion for three hours as i pitched a double header in 90 degree blazing sun on a very dry softball infield... but the good news is with extreme red-lining that basically stress tested the heart and stroke-potential, i did not die or have a stroke or heart attack... hopefully there was no permanent damage to the kidneys, heart, or anything else...

i felt the heat in the first inning of the first game as i hit a double and then ran home... the running raised the body temp considerable and there was little way to actually cool down for the rest of the two games... during the two games, ice water was poured on by upper neck and head, i drank bottle after bottle of g2 and 20 ounces of grapefruit juice and bottles of water and maintained yellow-line status throughout most of the games, though i was slightly cramping in the last three innings of the second game (the ball was hit better and half a dozen errors let the other team come back to from 13-4 {and all four of those were errors} to within one run in the last inning, but we held it together as i got the last batter to pop out foul and the left fielder, who is the most experienced player on the team by far, was playing just right to make a great running catch in fowl territory)... so we won both games and we are now tied for third place with those two teams which means if we win next week we have a playoff with whichever of those two teams win their game (though i thought there was no playoff for third, but i could be wrong... hope so... but i am rambling now, so i'll start a new paragraph that might get us somewhere near back to the original actual point of this entry, whatever it might be)...

anyway, what happened, if you haven't already read all the entries leading up to this one, is i started an impromptu fast (and a serious one at that) on tuesday or so... it was totally (mostly) subconscious and partly a reaction to flu-like symptoms that lead to exhaustion that kept me out of work for three days, but it was exploring this laptop during those three days and allowing the child inside to nurture and get lost in the addiction to play (in this case, basic computer games that came with the laptop, mostly from a company called wildtangent, so thank you wildtangent game company) that distracted me from sleep (less than three hours until saturday morning) and food (ate nothing solid since tuesday... ssome water with vitamins each day and on friday i drank a little grapefruit juice and some k2 protein drinks and water, but that's about it)...

today i drank grapefruit juice for breakfast, but did not drink nearly enough water... i drank a naked protein drink which was supposed to charge up the body as almost 500 calories of high-protein but otherwised balanced liquid went in... not enough liquid... so though i made it through the two games, i started seriously cramping and feeling the heat as i walked to the car and then after i got out of the car at the next practice field (with the weeknight teams)... i definitely was not playing, just showed up to say hello...

but dummy (that'd be me) still stayed in complete uniform and while sitting there very still helped me feel better, the walk to the port-a-potty and ninety seconds or so inside was enough to trigger the red-line and pending kidney explosion (or shut down, whatever it was, the pain was profound and i walked to my car and turned on the air and waited to die... not really, though sitting there trying not to writhe in pain because the slightest movement sent a cramp through whatever muscles attempted to move, i seriously pondered how i might actually drive over to the emergency room at the hospital that was about a mile away from where i was sitting and i even considered attempting to move my fingers enough to text one of my friends who were sitting over in the dugout to come over and find a way to move me to that emergency room, but the air conditioner and more lisuid helped the critical red-line moments pass...

i napped a bit, one of the softball team guys came over to say they were worried about me, and eventually i drove home... that would bring us to now... phew... this was written during sunday evening cartoons and a semi-almost nap... a slight extremity cramping almost occured when i moved anything but the muscles allowing me to type this (oooo, are we gonna end this entry in suspense?... if only you were all here to enjoy it, aye?)... i took more vitamins and drank more grapefruit juice and water when i got home before sitting down here to type... i considered food, but decided to let the body eat itself some more tonight and consider eating in the morning if i wake early enough... i did buy fresh veggies when i went shopping at 3am last night... and yogurt and cottage cheese and and protein drinks and other stuff, but nothing with any sort of fat content... we shall see if the cramping will let me sleep or if it will wake me enough to convince me to eat a little something, which would be so wrong after this week so dedicated the the extremes of cleansing and weight loss... time will tell...

so how was your day? :)