H/C Research: Hypothermia/Hyperthermia
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hoodie_timeI realize it's July, and therefore summer anywhere the Winchesters are likely to be right now, but I came across this article about hypothermia in my reading, and it occurred to me it might be useful reference material, should anyone be craving winter!fic right now! And/or you can save it for a few months until it's more seasonable. ;)
AS FREEZING PERSONS RECOLLECT THE SNOW—FIRST CHILL—THEN STUPOR—THEN THE LETTING GO by Peter Stark, originally published in the magazine Outside (January 1997)
Excerpt:
"You've now crossed the boundary into profound hypothermia. By the time your core temperature has fallen to 88 degrees, your body has abandoned the urge to warm itself by shivering. Your blood is thickening like crankcase oil in a cold engine. Your oxygen consumption, a measure of your metabolic rate, has fallen by more than a quarter. Your kidneys, however, work overtime to process the fluid overload that occurred when the blood vessels in your extremities constricted and squeezed fluids toward your center. You feel a powerful urge to urinate, the only thing you feel at all.
By 87 degrees you've lost the ability to recognize a familiar face, should one suddenly appear from the woods.
At 86 degrees, your heart, its electrical impulses hampered by chilled nerve tissues, becomes arrhythmic. It now pumps less than two-thirds the normal amount of blood. The lack of oxygen and the slowing metabolism of your brain, meanwhile, begin to trigger visual and auditory hallucinations.
You hear jingle bells."
EDIT: And I've located a digital copy of a parallel piece that deals in heat exhaustion and greater evils: THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY: KILLED BY THE LIGHT* by Luis Alberto Urrea (The Devil's Highway, 2005).
* Keep in mind that this is an excerpt from a larger piece that deals with other important topics; I don't mean to undermine their importance by not emphasizing them here. As this is a Dean H/C comm, however, I'm taking this opportunity to highlight its medically descriptive content in particular. Though the entire book has my full recommendation, too!
Happy writing/arting/misc. fanworking!
AS FREEZING PERSONS RECOLLECT THE SNOW—FIRST CHILL—THEN STUPOR—THEN THE LETTING GO by Peter Stark, originally published in the magazine Outside (January 1997)
Excerpt:
"You've now crossed the boundary into profound hypothermia. By the time your core temperature has fallen to 88 degrees, your body has abandoned the urge to warm itself by shivering. Your blood is thickening like crankcase oil in a cold engine. Your oxygen consumption, a measure of your metabolic rate, has fallen by more than a quarter. Your kidneys, however, work overtime to process the fluid overload that occurred when the blood vessels in your extremities constricted and squeezed fluids toward your center. You feel a powerful urge to urinate, the only thing you feel at all.
By 87 degrees you've lost the ability to recognize a familiar face, should one suddenly appear from the woods.
At 86 degrees, your heart, its electrical impulses hampered by chilled nerve tissues, becomes arrhythmic. It now pumps less than two-thirds the normal amount of blood. The lack of oxygen and the slowing metabolism of your brain, meanwhile, begin to trigger visual and auditory hallucinations.
You hear jingle bells."
EDIT: And I've located a digital copy of a parallel piece that deals in heat exhaustion and greater evils: THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY: KILLED BY THE LIGHT* by Luis Alberto Urrea (The Devil's Highway, 2005).
* Keep in mind that this is an excerpt from a larger piece that deals with other important topics; I don't mean to undermine their importance by not emphasizing them here. As this is a Dean H/C comm, however, I'm taking this opportunity to highlight its medically descriptive content in particular. Though the entire book has my full recommendation, too!
Happy writing/arting/misc. fanworking!
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Date: 2013-07-23 02:31 am (UTC)As far as hypothermia-related things go, I so want an episode that involves the ocean--like the windy, rainy, craggy, gross ocean, with just enough on-screen hurt and shivering to merit a SUDDEN OUTPOURING OF MORE GRAPHICALLY H/C FIC. \O/ *___* Or just more cold, wet Dean in general. :P
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Date: 2013-07-23 02:38 am (UTC)*is too busy picturing the boys FINALLY at a beach to respond*
(which btw was supposed to happen during all the Benny stuff last yr as Edlund had said he wrote a scene where Dean 'takes a walk on the beach'. So pissed it never came to be)
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Date: 2013-07-23 02:43 am (UTC)IT'S THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THERE ARE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR FRIGID, MISERABLE CASEWORK THERE. COME ON, VANCOUVER.
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Date: 2013-07-23 02:27 am (UTC)I actually have a piece on heat exhaustion/heat stroke that takes a similar tone, which might be more in season; I'll have to try and find a digital copy for everyone.
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