ivan Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 any one else had this fun, fun bacteria 'fore? i got my sweet case from the fragrant waters spilling down the gully below colchuck balanced rock - delayed epic! 5 days of fever above 103! shitting my brains out 40 X day (actually that part wasn't so bad - done read every copy of "alpinist" in mi bano cover to cover now)! the best though was clearly collecting my own chocolate milk excrement for the doctor to play w/ - but it was all worth it! just for the proper amount of motiviation to replace my long broken water filter sweet, sweet campy bacteria - here's to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Man I dont know what I brought out with me from the Pickets, but Why else do you think I am home on a nice weekend? I am going back to treating my drinking water from now on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 The WORST part is no drinking while on antibiotics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 That sucks. I've pretty much treated every ounce of water that I've consumed in the BC because I figured that I'd gladly bear the weight of the filter/iodine rather than endure some of the gastrointestinal assaults that I'd heard first hand accounts of. One guy told me he lost nearly 1/4 of his bodyweight during an especially bad bout with giardia. Good luck fighting off the pathogens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skykilo Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Great photo, E! Sorry to hear about your troubles; precisely when did they start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Link Yuck. Just curious, how are you certain of where you picked it up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatboy Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I've heard of a few people getting sick lately, who regularly don't treat their water, for years consecutively... Good thing this global warming stuff - and its resulting effect on bacteria/giardia/fecal entities is just a myth propagated by the enviro-hippies, huh, George W? Christ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share Posted August 21, 2006 that sums it up for me goat - i rarely treat water in the upper backcountry and have been doing so for half a decade now w/o getting the hammer - this shit was nasty enough to make me think twice - i wouldn't have been able to work pretty much all week if it had been the school year already should point out that sky has the iron-gut as we drank out of the same streams and he emerged unscathed - great, yet another thing i suck at comparatively i hear ya wayne - this wasn't the longest stretch i hadn't been drunk for and/or been active in for as long as i can remember- i'm hoping i'm not so wrecked now i can't squeeze one last trip in 'fore fawking labor day jay - it coulda also been the mid-portion of stream coming down from asgard - i was so wiped after getting whupped on by colchuck balanced that i couldn't stand to wait a half hour for iodine to clean the water - i drank a liter out of the first part of the stream you hit when heading down hill from the pass of cbr, and then another liter after finally concluding the shity slide alder cross-fuck and getting back on the trail my fav part about campy is the possibility of paralysis as a result of nerve damage caused by the immune system attacking it's own nerves - makes me paranoid about me tingling balls guess i should go rape a nun 'fore i lose the ability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 given the amount of human feces in the enchantments you may as well just crap in your water bottle as drink from a stream there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Come to think of it, Hansel did take "a growler" at the base of CBR. PM me for his number if you wanna bitch him out. I bet he'd be happy to provide you with a stool sample if you wanna test it and find out if he was the cuplrit. For the record, both Hansel and I drank >1L out of the Aasgard stream and didn't get sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 should point out that sky has the iron-gut as we drank out of the same streams and he emerged unscathed asymptomatic carrier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 When you're running past first and you feel a sudden burst Diarrhea cha cha cha Diarrhea cha cha cha When you're coming 'round second and then you let a wet one Diarrhea cha cha cha Diarrhea cha cha cha When you're running past third and you gotta drop a turd Diarrhea cha cha cha Diarrhea cha cha cha you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam Diarrhea cha cha cha Diarrhea cha cha cha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 that sums it up for me goat - i rarely treat water in the upper backcountry and have been doing so for half a decade now w/o getting the hammer - this shit was nasty enough to make me think twice - i wouldn't have been able to work pretty much all week if it had been the school year already should point out that sky has the iron-gut as we drank out of the same streams and he emerged unscathed - great, yet another thing i suck at comparatively i hear ya wayne - this wasn't the longest stretch i hadn't been drunk for and/or been active in for as long as i can remember- i'm hoping i'm not so wrecked now i can't squeeze one last trip in 'fore fawking labor day jay - it coulda also been the mid-portion of stream coming down from asgard - i was so wiped after getting whupped on by colchuck balanced that i couldn't stand to wait a half hour for iodine to clean the water - i drank a liter out of the first part of the stream you hit when heading down hill from the pass of cbr, and then another liter after finally concluding the shity slide alder cross-fuck and getting back on the trail my fav part about campy is the possibility of paralysis as a result of nerve damage caused by the immune system attacking it's own nerves - makes me paranoid about me tingling balls guess i should go rape a nun 'fore i lose the ability? Damn dude - that sounds pretty nasty. Even if it feels like you are on the mend it might be worth looking around for a specialist who has experience with this particular bug, or other especially nasty bacterial infections as a just-in-case. After hearing the medical/hospital gossip for a few years I can tell you that there's a pretty massive difference from one doctor to the next, and it never hurts to have the best in your corner if things take a turn for the worse. Not saying you should run to anyone's office, but it might be worth asking around for names just so you know where to go if there's any wierd side affects or what have you. Get well soon, amigo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Sucks. Sounds like a typical trip to anywhere in SE Asia. Better get yer girlfriend tested. And yer wife too. Who knows where it's been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Weird man. I've dranken from streams all over the mtns especially in the Enchantments with no problem. Some people get hit pretty hard though if they do. Strange that all of a sudden you caught something, especially since you did a proud job of trying to kill any unsuspecting parasites with Crown Royal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 sorry to hear of your troubles...yech!! it seems that everyone is so aware of giardia but it is only responsible for 15-25% of intestinal parasites aquired in the BC. Campy is responsible for a much larger proportion. guess it is a good idea to filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share Posted August 21, 2006 sorry to hear of your troubles...yech!! nonsense - no troubles at all - enjoyed every second of it! watched the entire 4th season of the west wing while shivering under 3 blankets and screeching the words to "you are my sunshine" endlessly over n' over in pig latin till my vocal cords gave up and strangled my hippocampus in self-defense anyone can take a week of campy-inspired bathroom campouts - THEY OUGHTA HAVE TO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindawg Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 any one else had this fun, fun bacteria 'fore? "Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?" i got my sweet case from the fragrant waters spilling down the gully below colchuck balanced rock - delayed epic! 5 days of fever above 103! sh*tting my brains out 40 X day (actually that part wasn't so bad - done read every copy of "alpinist" Click here and take a peek...if you dare! in mi bano cover to cover now)! the best though was clearly collecting my own chocolate milk excrement for the doctor to play w/ - but it was all worth it! just for the proper amount of motiviation to replace my long broken water filter sweet, sweet campy bacteria - here's to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 WOW! How Dwayner-esque! I miss the photo- and cartoon- doccumentaries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share Posted August 21, 2006 goddamn if this don't catch it perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I need to lose some weight, send me some shit. SEAsia didn't work for me, gained 5lbs. MMMmmm Chai + Samosas Mmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share Posted August 21, 2006 done - go ahead and lick your computer screen......now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share Posted August 21, 2006 the above image was of course first approved of by a leading international scholar and expert on the subject Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choada_Boy Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 You should try "vibrio" sometime. All the shitspray and vomit you could wish for, but with the additional blinding white hot abdominal pain! I was quite the hit in the E.R. after I alternately wrecked their toilet and sink. Who could have thought it was possible to make a hospital emergency room bathroom any MORE germ infested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Rough stuff Eric. I just got back from 3 weeks in Peru, eating and drinking without a care in the world. Zero intestinal problems. Three days after I get back home, go for a long bike ride and drink three glasses of tap water on return. Two days later I am curled up in the fetal position experiencing the love of which you describe. After 4 days of that I started taking cipro and immodium. Sealed things up nicely. Scary part was shitting out liquid which was exactly the same shade of the gatorade I drank just beforehand. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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