{"id":11443,"date":"2026-04-05T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:45:16","slug":"got-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/got-water\/","title":{"rendered":"GOT WATER?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We hear it all the time\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHydrate!\u00a0\u00a0Hydrate!\u00a0\u00a0Hydrate!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0So do you?<\/p>\n

Staying on top of this\u00a0hydration business<\/em>\u00a0makes sense, especially in the summertime.\u00a0\u00a0Sirens blaring, the paramedics have arrived at our ukulele jams or shows to rescue a player who has gone pale and slumped over in a heap.\u00a0\u00a0Thankfully this has only happened a few times and everyone was okay.<\/p>\n

But one cool spring<\/em> morning, an older fellow keeled over in my ukulele class.\u00a0\u00a0About ten of us were seated in a small second-floor classroom and, as you might expect, just strumming our ukes.\u00a0\u00a0The paramedics slogged up (and down) the narrow stairs with gurney and equipment in tow.\u00a0\u00a0Thankfully our friend recovered\u2026after a couple days in the hospital.\u00a0\u00a0Diagnosis:\u00a0\u00a0Dehydration.<\/p>\n

Flash forward to this month, March. It\u2019s Thursday, the setting is Zoom Central at my desk in the living room.\u00a0\u00a0According to the calendar, it\u2019s still winter in Los Angeles.\u00a0\u00a0But whoa it’s hot!\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m getting ding-ding heat\u00a0<\/em>alerts on my phone all day.\u00a0\u00a0My husband is out of town which means I\u2019m a little discombobulated\u2026well more than usual.\u00a0\u00a0But this afternoon I am blissfully getting ready for my class and not really paying attention to my body.\u00a0\u00a0All the windows are open, the fans are blowing.\u00a0\u00a0The temperature inside is 81 degrees but\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not feeling it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says the lobster in the pot of tepid water as the burner heats up.\u00a0\u00a0Why oh why don\u2019t I turn on the AC?<\/p>\n

As the Zoom class begins my hands are shaking.\u00a0\u00a0Like what?\u00a0\u00a0Of course I\u2019m sipping water.\u00a0\u00a0But only when I remember, which isn\u2019t a lot because I just don\u2019t get thirsty.\u00a0\u00a0Now it\u2019s feeling like a word scramble in my brain and my office chair is wobbling. I muscle through the hour because that\u2019s what I do and it doesn\u2019t hit me until we are all saying good-bye that I am dehydrated.\u00a0\u00a0That my jiggly chair is okay.\u00a0\u00a0I am not.<\/p>\n

It takes a few hours of water (and Gatorade) guzzling, peeing a lot, laying very still with a pillow over my head before I feel \u201cnormal\u201d again. Well who knows what \u201cnormal\u201d is, but it is NOT being dehydrated.<\/p>\n

That evening I text my friends and they have plenty to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cWow!\u00a0\u00a0And it happens so fast and one is slow in figuring it out.\u00a0\u00a0Yesterday was my day for confronting dehydration. I did too much walking and not enough hydrating, got the shakes and was a bit disoriented and fatigued.\u00a0\u00a0Someone I know fainted today and was treated by the paramedics. Heat related stuff is going around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another friend tells me she has been admitted to the hospital twice for dehydration and now sips from her water bottle all day.\u00a0\u00a0At our ukulele jams she takes a swallow after each song.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s 19 songs and a whole lot of\u00a0chug-a-lugging.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Who does that?\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t do that.\u00a0\u00a0And my friend?\u00a0\u00a0SHE is the one calling 911\u00a0for someone else<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The next day I’m feeling good and sliding into my morning routine, EXCEPT this time the FIRST <\/strong>thing I do is DRINK<\/strong> a cup of water. \u00a0<\/strong>And another. \u00a0And another. \u00a0You see, my usual MO is to roll out of bed, dive right into my creative thing and lose track of time or what my body needs. \u00a0But not today! \u00a0 Not anymore.<\/p>\n

Then I head off to the uke class I teach at a local retirement community. \u00a0 Of course I tell the residents all about yesterday\u2019s drama because<\/em>\u00a0these people are Zen masters and I want to hear what they have to say.\u00a0\u00a0Each one nods in agreement and recounts their own\u00a0dehydration-tale-of-woe.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0The major consensus is that you just don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening and are darn lucky if you figure it out before the paramedics are loading you into an ambulance.<\/p>\n

Well let\u2019s\u00a0drink<\/em>\u00a0to that!<\/p>\n

\"roses\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My friends, I send a weekly email newsletter to The CC Strummers which is all about the ukulele, zoom classes and our beloved community.
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With much gratitude for your ongoing presence\u2026<\/p>\n

Cali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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