I've been in a fog the last few days...
I mowed wednesday around mid morning, finished around 12:30 I was dying.
I cooled down for about 30 minutes, realized I could not walk, could only take baby steps, I was not "feeling" right.
Took a shower, then sweated for an hour afterwords..
Then the headache and complete exhaustion set in, lasted the rest of the day and int the next day.
I can handle dry heat, but this humidity kills me, how the heck I worked the hay fields in this crap when I was a teenager is beyond me.
True I am almost 60 now. Lot more of me as well LOL.
Yes the hay fields were here in Oklahoma, coal county mainly. First hay field job was the summer of 1980, ah yes what a time to be alive.
Damn dude! Be careful! Take it from someone who didn't pay attention to her body and wound up in the ER in my 20s. It was NOT fun and it took me YEARS to get to where I didn't start puking every time it was warm enough to make me sweet. And yeah, THOSE headaches are BRUTAL. I'd rather bail 20 fields of hay than do "women's work" so I was crushed when the old ranchers wouldn't let me go out with them anymore. Every once in a while I'd get an afternoon it but I think that was just because they could see I was about to lose my mind listening to "girl talk" in the kitchen.
right there with ya i worked a lot of terrible summers as a carpenter!I remember working construction in 105 temps during the week, and loading hay on the weekends for my brother-n-law. The hay was bad enough but the alfalfa was a killer on the heat.
I hear ya.
My mind does not know that my body is old and out of shape LOL
Right??!?!? I run into (or meet up with) you kids nowadays and I'm like "Whoa!! What happened?? You got OLD!" And then I realize that you guys are now the age I was when I met y'all in the first place. I'm ancient now!
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