End of Day Two

Being the good future husband I left Johanne to hike to this old Inca ruin.

She was with one of our guides so I had no worries.

Day two I to went to bed at 8:00.... two hours after Johanne. She was really out of it. We decided to give her Ciparo, an anti-biotic used to fight travelers stomach but she took a swig of water and barfed it and the little bit she had in her stomach all up all over the camp.

I am crazy concerned as Johanne hasn't eaten solid food in two days only water. .. I know through my Dad's survival training that the human body will be in big trouble after three days of living on just water but I was glad she was drinking. She became very mad at me for constantly harassing her to guzzle water. I begged and cried to make her eat... she wouldn't.... or really she couldn't... she was too sick. I talked to our guide Carlos, who was amazing and did everything possible for Joey-Lynn. We discussed our options rescue by helicopter retrieval, by donkey, alpaca, or a small statured Peruvian porter. It was hard for me to picture this woman who was the perfection of fitness to be so incapacitated. I could hardly fathom it. After a long discussion it was determined that we would see how she was on day three. We were beyond the point of no return so it was just as well that she try to walk out... after all it was mostly down hill...(BTW... down a mountain is worse than up a mountain… way worse!)

I kept track of Joey-Lynn's water intake as she is complaining about her kidney more and more. She took in 3.5litres of water but hardly pee’d a drop. I was really concerned.