Maynor Estuardo Álvarez used to stand the Texas heat, but not anymore.
Something changed in his body last summer while working as a painter in an apartment in Houston. It was the afternoon, the temperature had surpassed 100 degrees and the unit had no air conditioning. He suddenly felt his heart racing and started sweating profusely. His calves cramped, then his arms, followed by an unbearable pain under his ribs.
He called his wife and told her: “I think I’m about to faint.”
She advised him to drink water, but he said he was already doing so.
“Get out of there then,” she said.