We are all family, and we know that we have this family stories. I will share a family story about my overheating a few years ago. In the process of selling our cabin in the mountains, I picked the hottest day of the year, 95° in the shade to drive to our cabin by myself to say goodbye. It was a lifelong dream and I wanted some time alone in the area by myself. I did not tell my wife that I was going, told my personal care attendant, and called her on my cell phone before heading back the mountain. As far as she knew, everything was fine and I was safe. I started the half-mile drive into the woods in the van stops. Okay, no problem I have my cell phone, except in the mountains, in the trees, in the van, there is no cell service. I could not open the ramp because of the trees, but by opening the van door I got one bar on my cell phone. I believe in being prepared and I had a telephone number of the local garage program into my phone, so I called them and they send someone out to give me a hand. At this point in time I had been out in the heat over an hour, but being in the shade it was not a problem. The van started, I went and spent a few hours at the cabin, said my goodbyes and headed out. By this time I was starting to overheat and knew that I would be driving 80 miles in a van that could quit at any time. Idea, stop at the local convenience store, purchased their cheapest cooler, two bags of ice and 12 bottles of water, just in case. By this time the was really getting to me, I was not using the air conditioner in the van as I didn't want to overtax the engine. Stopping at the local store, which in the mountains does everything, I asked if I could sit in their meat locker has I was getting very close to a heat stroke. They looked at me funny, but they let me set in the meat room. As I sat there and cool down, I tried to concoct some kind of story that I would tell my wife says she wouldn't kill me for going and not telling her. Oh well, I took my lumps. The moral of the story is then went your meat overheat.
Glenn Henry
