I was never feeling a 100%, but quite manageable.... AND THEN, I fell horribly ill. It started out as what seemed a simple cold... then my stomach started turning, and then over the next few days I started getting extremely bad cramps but some how maintaining to still barely keep up with my Travel partner Brent. Then just after an extremely heat exhausting day, all of a sudden I just needed to lay down, super faint and icky feeling. And THEN I got cold.... really really cold..... shivering and shaking cold.... so cold I bundled up in my zero degree weather sleeping bag. The funny thing was 5 min before that, I was sweating in the extreme heat of the day as I normally did. Being this cold didn't make sense to me, but I couldn't help how I was feeling. Apparently to the touch I was a furnace... Brent tried to force me into a cold shower... but I was soo cold already there was just no having it! This continued for about three hours... until I got really hot again. Feverishly Ill all night... and mind you were in the middle of the jungle... with the nearest doctor at least 4hrs aways. The next morning we took the quickest minibus to Krabi to the local emergency room. Sadly, I had really wanted to spend some time in Krabi.... but not this way. By the time we arrived I started to cry... and i'm still not sure if it was out of fear or relief of finally being with help. The doctor tried to tell me it was tonsilitus which really didn't make sense.. that had gotten so severe it had moved into the rest of my body. Who knows... but antibiotics worked! It took at least 3 days until I was feeling even 50% better.
Oh yah- the pic is some NASTY stuff Brent made to rehydrate and re-electrolyze me. Oh, the stuff was so bad.... it smelled like vomit, and made me want to half the time.
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