Reply #13: I had a pretty serious heatstroke... [View All]

working on *The Color Purple* in NC. The water cups we had were the tiny ones with pointed bottoms - so even if you could get away from the set to get a drink, you couldn't fill a cup and take it with you. The stroke came on very suddenly. I just had time to say "oooh..I don't feel well* when I keeled over. It was almost a slow motion, out of body sensation. I was in the hospital when I came to - with one of those defrib patches on and a bunch of people asking me if I knew where I was.( I didn't because I had no idea where they'd taken me, but obviously it was an emergengy room somewhere). I was in hospital about a week and another week *indoors*. I was also told by the doctors that once you've had a heat stroke, you are a candidate for another one.