Deb: and All, exactly.. Alabama passed it's boat license now to include "ALL motorized boats" which now includes even trolling motors,so I just took the test in May this yr.. and one of the questions was how much water (not beer or Colas it said LOL) to drink on a Summer day to keep from being dehydrated .. The answer was at LEAST one PINT per HOUR.... Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Duran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 6:32 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] Don't catch fish in the hospital.. Tom I hope you're feeling better now! One of my good friends in UFT has Amyloidoisis which affects the kidneys and it has really been slowing him down lately. It is very scary. This last year has been really tough on him. Take very good care of yourself. This summer heat will zap all your water quickly. Warm Regards, Deb -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Davenport Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 11:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Don't catch fish in the hospital.. Thursday, August 4th I took my brother and his son up to the Uinta mountains for some quick dry fly fishing for brook trout. On the way up I felt a fever coming on and by the time I got home I was sick with some kind of flu. I spent the next three days in bed nursing a the fever and was feeling better Sunday afternoon. But early Monday morning I felt some chest pains which kept getting stronger as the day wore on. So I went into my local clinic as soon as it opened that morning, and discovered just how fast you can actually get a doctor when you have gray hair and say something about "chest pains". I didn't think it was a heart attack because I had no shortness of breath, but all of the other symptoms were there: pressure, radiating pain, etc. Well, as soon as the doc was certain I wasn't going to die on him he put me through a series of tests, an EKG, Echo Cardiogram, and finally a CT scan to figure out what was going on. Apparently the same virus that made my throat sore had somehow worked its way into the lining of my heart, and that was the cause of the pain. With a prescription for Lortab and Prednezone I was sent home to recover. But I had some kind or reaction to the pain medication and started throwing up about every 90 minutes, regardless of the contents of my stomach, which was mostly water since it was more pleasant to have something coming out, and of course I was very thirsty by now. Things really got weird in the morning when I woke up at 3:00 am with nausea demanding a trip to the toilet, but I couldn't move! My muscles were like rubber with no strength at all. So I had to rouse my wife to throw me a towel. Gradually my strength came back a little, but for the rest of the night I would wake up with the same paralyzed feeling to contend with. Well this kind of thing gets your attention, so we went back in the clinic, told the doctor what had been happening and he ordered some more blood tests... and had me in the hospital thirty minutes later. I had become severely dehydrated and my kidneys were shutting down. Well, after two days of re-hydration and more blood draws than I care to remember, I have been sent home a little more aware of my mortality. And the days of fishing five or six hours without a drink to avoid the "nuisance" of leaving my kick boat for a nature call are gone forever. My kidneys will now get nothing but TLC from me. Tom Davenport Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd Webshots Albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/tsmdav
