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Unfortunately it struck just after midnight: my second bout of food poisoning. Every 30 minutes I was running to the bathroom with terrible stomach pains and explosive diarrhea, I couldn't believe it I had been so careful with what I was eating and I had not touched street food in 2 weeks. The trips to the bathroom became more rapid and I started to feel the need to vomit, along with all this I remembered I had a 20-40 hour bus ride ahead of me today on the worlds most dangerous road and with no bathroom on the bus. Things got worse and by morning I was completely zapped of all my energy. I decided it would not be possible to sit on a bus for the next 20+ hours on terrible roads with no bathroom. I rang an agency about booking a flight for tomorrow instead of todays bus ride and luckily they had a spare seat for about $70. I really didn't want to fly because of the expense and the fact the bus was only $10 but I didn't really have a choice. Nyrzha was so kind and drove me into the city to get my plane ticket, on the way in my stomach started to groan and we only just made it to the office and their toilet before my bows emptied once again. I booked my plane ticket and seen as I had an hour before my bus was supposed to leave I decided I would head to the station and try and sell my ticket. Nyrzha had to go to work so I jumped in a mini van and made my way to Villa Fatima 45 minutes away, the journey was hell and my stomach growled and groaned the whole way. Jumping out of the van I ran to find a toilet and thankfully once again just made it on time. With 10 minutes to spare I made it to the bus terminal and told the lady my situation, she was ever so kind and refunded my ticket (something unheard of here: no such thing as refunds), I was ever so thankful for her kindness that I started to feel better. I went to the chemist brought some more Imodium and then jumped in another van back to Nyrzha's place, once again the journey was long and I was crammed in van with my knees putting pressure on my soar stomach. I made it to Nyrzha's house and raced to the bathroom, god I have been so lucky today not to of crapped myself - something I guess to be thankful of. At this point i new i was very sick and highly doubted i would even be able to get on a plane tomorrow, i decided therefor to try postpone my trip to the jungle. I rang my friend Fra who I was supposed to go to jungle with and told her the situation and how I was worried I wouldn't be well enough to get on flight, she agreed and helped me try and change tour dates. After two hours of trying to call tour agency and subsequent trips to the bathroom I got through and the lady was so kind and understanding; letting my cancel my tour date and leave my tour open so as to go whenever I wanted. Next job was to ring flight agency and try cancel my flight, I also thought at this point it might be a good idea to eat so I ate an omelette I had made the night before. The omelette proved a very bad idea and within 20 minutes I was back on the toilet and this time violently throwing up also. I continued to call flight agency but couldn't get through - after 3 hours of non stop calling, email after email I had no reply - at this point I started to worry as I new I only had today to cancel flight. I had Nyrzha and Fra also trying to call for me but none of us were doing any good - in a final attempt I called the actual airline and through my very bad Spanish, complete confusion and neither myself or the guy on the other end knowing what the hell was going on; managed to cancel my flight for a very reasonable $5. At this point I collapsed I was so warn out from 4 hours of nonstop phone calls, non stop trips to the bathroom and to go with that I now had a high fever. Later in the evening Nyrzha came home and made me chicken soup, unfortunately I still felt way to sick and couldn't stomach the thought of food, however I felt truly blessed to have someone thinking and caring for me. Praying that I feel better tomorrow and thankful I was able to postpone my tour and my flight I can rest easy tonight.
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