My Scare With Overheating Working Outside Yesterday

I took a half day from my day job to work my side gig of cutting residential yards in my neighborhood.

Started off fine yesterday and finished one with no issues. Started to get a bit lethargic pretty quickly on the second. I had plenty of water but evidently wasn't replenishing it quick enough. On the back yard of the second, I started to get dizzy and nauseous so I took a break in the shade. I started up a few minutes later and quickly started to to dry heave. I stopped cutting and stumbled into the shade and began to vomit. With the vomiting, my stomach began to cramp and felt like a knife going into my side. I left all my equipment strewn about the yard and somehow drove 1/2 mile to my house. My hands were cramping so bad that I could not physically open my front door. It took about 15-20 seconds to get inside. I threw myself on the bed and tried to ride it out. The pain didn't dissipate and the cramping moved into my calves.

I knew I was in trouble when I tried for about a minute to get my phone out of my shorts pocket and could not do it. I said frick it and stumbled out to my neighbors garage, which was open and he was luckily in it, and fell out on the slab. I said call 911. He did and they were there within about 15 minutes.

The dry heaving got worse and then my face and half of my arms went numb. When the EMT's got me into the ambulance and somewhat stabilized, he said you were one question away, I was asking you, from taking life flight. Which unknowingly to me, had landed right outside of my neighborhood.

This opened my eyes at how quick and absolutely debilitating heat exhaustion can be. I was fairly close to having a heat stroke so I'm grateful it wasn't worse

I'm 37 and in half arse decent shape and this jumped on my faster than anything I've ever experienced. Drink fluids, listen to your body and don't do what I did yesterday trying to just tough it out (like I've done before)