Man are we sick
Today Scott Levi Dane Chevy Chase and I rode about 50 miles. During the ride Dane and I stopped at a convenience store and got some hamburgers. Bad move. 3 hours later I was sunburned, dehydrated, throwing up and going diareahha at the same time. Thrown up 3x and gone to the bathroom maybe 12x so far. I can't hd anything down not even water.
I got no blogability tonight. I just wanted to make note of the complete suffering I am now experiencing. I would do anything for my mommy to be rubbing my forehead and bringing me an Ice cold seven up to help settle my stomach like she did when I was little. Ryan Delamater is in the hurt locker BIG time.
So it's 2:07am in the morning an fit appears thus thing has finally broken. I threw up 6x and just dripped sweat as it poured out of me. I'm terribly dehydrated. I have held no water down since 3pm and that was after a 50 mile ride in 95 degree heat. I'm in my hammock now just sipping water.
I have never had this kind of nausea before. Each time I threw up my abs hurt so hard from flexing it felt like a had a stomach ache. I would throw up and just be so out of it I was laying in the dirt. A lady came and tried to give Dane and I some tea but we were just completely out of it. I was actually thinking how much it sucked to be this sick laying in the dirt with my head spinning. This is for sure the lowpoint of the trip. I actually began to worry which will tell you how sorry i was feeling. I typically never worry about anything but I knew that if I didn't get some water in me soon I was gonna have a real problem.
Scott is up now as well and it appears he is going to the bathroom every 5 minutes as well.
Levi remains strong and healthy and his positive fun self. That guy is such a bro.
So we woke up this morning and Levi was vomiting as well. We are all in a world of hurt. Half coherent. Vomiting. Vomiting so hard hurts your throat. Barely able to walk. Headaches. As Levi said " this is what it must feel like to die."
Not to mention all this is happening against a backdrop of roosters crowing, music blaring, fires burning trash that somehow seems to find your nostrils, and trucks rumbling by blowing their horns. Just total misery.
So we asked a guy with a small toyota truck to take us to the nearest hotel. He told us it would be about $6. So we loaded up 4 bikes, all our gear, and 6 people and took off. It was so crowded I was forced to stand in the back of the truck like a wild bandit. I felt like I was going to faint with the wind flipping through my hair at 50mph. We got to the hotel. Levi jumped out and sat in the curb. He looked terrible. Dane sat in the ground. He looked Terrible. Scott and I looked terrible but we had enough energy to get a room and put our stuff in it. We all immediately fell asleep for 5 hours.
We think we got sick from some sugarcane we chopped down and ate or perhaps some cheese. Hard to tell.
Im feeling a little better. I drank some juice. Danes looking better. Scott and Levi are still hurting. Their asleep already and it's 7:30pm.
I wanted to give the bet account of our total misery as possible. I left Ohio on September 1st and most days have been so delightful it gies without saying. But this has been the lowpoint for sure. Just a complete physical meltdown.
We threw up a combined 51 times between the four o us when it was all said and done
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