BecomingJulie
Bluelight Crew
^ Quoted For Truth.Water sometimes isn't enough. That's the important thing.
Once upon a time, on a Summertime speed bender (think: temps in the high 20s / low 30s, no food), I managed to get within a hair's breadth of joining Leah Betts. Fortunately, my brain was still working just enough to notice that drinking and pissing at the same time, all the while getting thirstier and thirstier was not only not normal, but a classic symptom of electrolyte deficiency (not enough salt feels exactly the same as not enough water -- an evolutionary curiosity), and my body was still working just enough to get to a café with salt and sugar available. A teaspoon of salt in a glass of water with enough sugar to render it drinkable saved my life. Didn't look pretty, but it worked.
Dying per se wasn't actually my greatest concern -- the thought foremost in what was left of my mind was, there is no way in hell that I am going to end up being turned into a poster child for the Prohibitionist cause. (Not that I would have looked any good on a poster, but .....)