Suddenly Dehydrated

first Santana and now sportscaster Bob Rathbun

“When I die, when I’m gone, there’ll be one child born and this world will carry on.”—Blood, Sweat & Tears

A few months ago Santana collapsed on stage. Cause of his collapse=dehydration. I think there were a few other dehydrations after and then it kind of dried out until a few days ago when a sportscaster has a dehydration experience.

“Bally Sports Southeast, which airs the Hawks games, said later on Twitter that Rathbun was “treated for dehydration” and was “stable and responsive” as he headed to the hospital for “further evaluation.”

This Yahoo link has a video about half way down the article. I’ve ran a few marathons, I once did a 16 hour hike in the Pacific Northwest mountains. I’ve done the training hike for Mt. Rainier called Mailbox Peak at least 10 times. This hike is three miles straight up so I’m pretty experienced in dehydration. Typically your body warns you a thousand times over— “Drink stupid….drink.” In my above scenarios there wasn’t enough water to defend off dehydration so I stupidly continue on.

The body finds another way. It will send severe cramps that will force you to stop at times and you massage the cramping area. You drink a lot of water then too. Maybe a quick snack too, and when you feel you’ve recovered you go back at it. I’ve never lost bodily control, never contorted, and never froze in fear. I tested dehydration on the human body and took it to it’s extremes. I never turned into a Bob.

There’s an out for Bob and that’s his age. It’s reported he’s 86. Why do 86-year-old men dye their hair? So they can pick up chicks after the game at the sports bar? Haven’t you fooled around and fell in love enough by the time you’re 86?

Of course all of us anti-vaxxers want to know, has he been vaccinated? We know the answer. That’s a personal question between he and his doctor and his family has requested that everyone please allow them their privacy during this frightening on air experience. It could factor into his medical crisis. Doesn’t the family want to know? Why is it a secret? It could help others determine cause should they too suddenly dehydrate during a basketball game.

I don’t drink much water and my wife constantly nags at me for this. “There’s water in beer,” I reply. I call bullshit on the dehydration. I bet he has a half empty water bottle somewhere around him. I bet he has another in his hotel room. I bet he was drinking something on the drive to the game. I bet the Hawks will lose to the Knicks in tonights game at 4:30PM. I bet Bob won’t be there—not hydrated enough.

Credit Mark Crispin Miller as a Substack source and my comment below.