Will I eventually acclimate to this heat???

[indysteel]

one more thing about heat exhaustion. there's an article in the NYTimes about it;
here's an excerpt; it's scary stuff!


"But I wasn’t fine. By the end of the run I had collapsed with heatstroke and had fallen unconscious. The athletic trainers quickly submerged me in a tub of ice to lower my body temperature, and I spent the next week in a hospital, lucky to be alive. Later my coach visited me, angry at himself for letting me continue my run. But I had no memory of our earlier exchange. “You were so convincing,'’ he told me.

Athletic researchers say one of the most frustrating aspects of heat illness is that the sufferer is often completely unaware of his or her own symptoms.

“Your cognitive ability and your capacity to make a rational decision is indeed compromised,'’ said Michael F. Bergeron, director of the environmental physiology laboratory at the Medical College of Georgia. “You hear all the time that the athletes themselves didn’t know enough to stop and didn’t want to stop and have no memory of what happened.'’

Here's the link to the full article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...llness-denial/