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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Nov 13, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
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Great anecdote salad. Wondered when someone was going to list all of your vomit descriptions.
I don't usually vomit but I do carry diphenatrop to help keep the gremlins at bay. Heard a story once where a guy couldn't hold it back and had to let lose in bed. It was said to be about the consistancy you could s#@t through a tennis racket and never touch a string. Problem was he was on the top bunk of a place in Nepal so his buddy got a hershey shower. Thats a real pal for ya.
Maybe I could import fecal matter from different countries and incorporate it into a product used to pre-expose a soon to be traveler?? I'm sure I could come up with a catchy name. Pill, candy bar, sports drink?? Hmmm
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nov 13, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
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Had to crap my brains out on the Annapurna trek once at Muktinath. Ironically it was Christmas and I was staying at the North Pole lodge. There was a huge freak snowstorm with super high winds, but somehow couldn't figure out if the lodge even had an outhouse (*and I speak hindi and a bit of nepali)
So I had to trudge out in the high winds and crap in the snow and darkness.
Santa didn't come down the chimney either
Peace
karl
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2008 - 08:10pm PT
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We were at a camp way on up in the mountains and I was "blowing mud" about every hour. When the feeling came, it meant NOW. It was such a fire drill getting out of my bag and clothes and getting a reasonable distance from the tent, or at least out of the door. I had to cover up the tell-tale spots on the snow the next day so my partners would not get too grossed out.
I still have brown spots on my down booties from the poop spray.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Nov 13, 2008 - 08:35pm PT
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:-)
Funny topic.
But my best stories are only local.
Sorry. Good stories so far.
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Jonny D
Social climber
Lost Angelez, Kalifornia
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Nov 13, 2008 - 09:27pm PT
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my annapurna trek story:
i was lucky i didn't get sick until kalopani, a few days away from the end of the trek. actually, no throwing up, just 3 days of nasty diarea and stomach cramps. i got this awesome hotel room with hot water shower and rested (under amazing annapurna view) until i got better. when i got to pokhara, i scared myself looking in the mirror i was soo skinny.
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Cr4Zy1
Boulder climber
Hercules
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:59am PT
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While on a school trip to Costa Rica, a majority of the people (including parents) got sick, but I don't think any of them vomited. However about a week before our trip was to end I got a case of the "I don't feel good, but it isn't that bad..." I thought it would pass, but boy was I wrong.
On our last day during the bus ride my condition progressed to the "I hope I can make it to the poop house, cuz otherwise im SOL (no pun intended),". When we made it to the airport i started to feel a bit better because we were moving around. But upon learning that our flight had been delayed for 2 hours due to fog, we sat down and I started to feel sick again. This time it was the "Don't touch me, unless you like rice and beans on your shirt,". We then learned that our 12 day trip would become a 14 day trip due to flight cancellation. Now came the "Get the F*** out of my way, I'm a time bomb of partially digested food and stomach acid,". At this time i actually went into the restroom and bowed down before the white porcelain god. (May I also remind you that in Latin American they don't flush tp, they throw it away, so I also had a heinous smell,). After approx 15 minutes I started to vomit, to thunder-chunder rainbow parfait if you will.
After what seemed to be an eternity of casting my bread upon the waters, I seemed much better, so much better that I even ate dinner. Unfortunately this feeling didn't last that long, later that night at approx 1:23 A.M. I once again played the part of mother bird to her chicks. The next day I felt much better, but I still stayed in bed. I was able to make it for the plane ride, but once again, the night I got home I tossed cookies. But overall the trip to Costa Rica was great and I hope to go back soon.
p.s. I also remembered that a few days before the trip, I reverse ate, curious... very curious.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 14, 2008 - 01:14am PT
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People vomit a broad?
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Nov 14, 2008 - 11:27am PT
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I was in Korea for a week and carefully avoiding all the regular no-no's. On the last day I was taken to a South Korean restaurant for lunch and then a North Korean restaurant for dinner. The former was quite scary from a sanitation viewpoint and I drank only Pepsi and ate boiled chicken. The North Korean place was quite elegant and we cooked everything on the table. I felt safe.
Hours later... middle seat on a very crowded and long flight home... an urge... dash to the toilet (vacant... what a relief) and I evacuated an entire bowl full of watery, brown Korean food in less than two seconds. (I guess it's true that North Korea and South Korea just don't get along.) I rested, unsure of what had just happened. Standing to wash up I again jumped to the seat and let loose another spray. In all, I spent 30 minutes in that room before returning to my seat. I was to make the dash three more times during the long flight and the dysentery continued for another two weeks. I lost 15 pounds thanks to Jenny Korea.
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tinker b
climber
your local park
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:35pm PT
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i have puked on all continents, but my favorite was in southern mexico. a few days earlier we were in guatemala and my cheap ass boyfriend convinced me that instead of spending so much money on bottled water, we should just go local...how bad could it be? my inner scott took over and i agreed, mostly because i didn't want to exchange more money before going over the border.
sure enough a few days after drinking the water i had the worst sulfer burps. we were in a restaurant and i was carefully trying to eat some soup when i realized if i burped again things weren't going to stay down. i asked the waiter where the bathroom was and tried to listen, but my spanish is pathetic and i was having a difficult time concentrating.
i understood go into the kitchen and was desprately looking around. before i could find the bathroom door i grabbed a trash bin and started to hurl in the middle of the kitchen. everyone in the kitchen paused to watch, and when i looked up i was horified to see that there was a large counter window through which all of the diners were also watching (i clearly remember my cheap ass boyfriend shoveling in his food rapidly so he could clear his plate before he had to leave)
i did finally find the bathroom and got a few more shots in and washed up a little.
i returned to our table and just wanted to pay the bill and leave, but my boyfriend insisted on us staying so that he could finish his dinner.
we did pay the extra money to have our own bathroom for the next few days and fortunately mexican drugs are cheap...
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:42pm PT
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I urinated on four states at the same time.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:44pm PT
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And the boyfriend... what became of him?
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:48pm PT
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hahaha that was to be my question too, ihp. cheapass boyfriends typically don't last long...
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tinker b
climber
your local park
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49pm PT
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he burbed a bit, compained alot, and i dumped him when we got back to the states.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:51pm PT
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Yea, we already knew the answer, but it is always nice to hear the words!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2008 - 01:33pm PT
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I was on a surf trip to Peru and befriended a local family. They insisted on proving to me that you can get good chinese food in Peru. I don't really like chinese food, I think it is greasy and bland, but did not want to offend. We went to the place and they ordered massive amounts of food. It was disgusting. I kept choking it down in an effort to be polite. Then, unfortunately, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen. I immediately knew how I would spend the next several hours, assuming perhaps optimistcally that I would not just drop dead.
I didn't even make it back to the place I was staying and had to go to my friend's parent's house, where I puked and pooped for about a day and half. Every time I tossed or burped I would get the flavor of the food.
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Nov 14, 2008 - 04:24pm PT
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I drank from a tea cup at a roadside stand en route to Nainital. Up to that point I had only used the disposable clay cups, but they didn't have any here. Big mistake that I went for it.
I spent a night of our honeymoon shivering with a heater as close as possible without burning my skin, wifey sitting up putting a washcloth on my forehead to help manage the fever. I often dashed to the toilet but I couldn't run fast enough and wifey got to prove how much she meant "in sickness and in health." Our wedding vows were actually in Sanscrit so I'm not sure if they included that clause, but she was a champ in any case. We later proved there are things harder to work out in a marriage than cleaning crap from boxers.
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