June/July 2016 71 SHUTTERSTOCK (2) morning when the sun is not so strong,” advises Dr. Karen Pike, ER medical director and chief of staff at El Camino Hospital’s Los Gatos campus. “You should wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from ultraviolet rays. In some people, the sun can trigger migraines.” Treat sunburn with aloe vera or by immersing the burned area in tepid water, she advises. “Don’t go for those strange grandma recipes, such as butter or mayo,” says Mike Perez, director of United Air Ambulance, an international medical evacuation firm in Chandler, Arizona. “Using the wrong substance may hold the heat in the tissue itself.” SAFE AT SEA The moment when you least expect something to happen is when something does. In Maui, Mountain View entrepreneur Mark Recine and his 8-year-old son, Nate, were enjoying the ocean when Nate spied a translucent blue blob floating about and picked it up. The quarter-sized jellyfish wrapped itself around his index finger and stung him. Meanwhile Mark, unaware of what had happened, suddenly felt a sharp pain on his hand. He and his son had unknowingly entered a jellyfish zone, and both were panicking in tandem. “I still have a scar on my finger,” he recalls. “Their tentacles WHEN YOU THINK THROUGH LOGICALLY OVER EVERYTHING YOU NEED, AND IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST, GO AHEAD AND ENJOY YOURSELF. YOU’LL KNOW THAT IF ANYTHING DOES HAPPEN, YOU WILL BE READY.
South Bay Accent - Jun/Jul 2016
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