Ouch

[pandora_parrot]

Hmmm...

I've mentioned that I have trouble with this whole body thing, right?

Well, this weekend I decided to go do some climbing/rappelling up at Castle Rock with some friends of mine.

While still getting over a cold and dealing with my broken toe (which is healing nicely, but still painful a bit.)

And while I was out there, I managed to get sunburned, get seriously dehydrated, and start to suffer from heat exhaustion.

I tried climbing a measly 5.4 route and couldn't make it up past 10 feet. My body simply gave out on me. Even the hike back from the rock was grueling for me. I could barely breathe. My head was swimming, and I felt nauseous and dizzy like whoah. I could barely even drive us home, I was so out of it.

Once I got back to my friend's house and drank some gatorade, I perked right back up.

However, I'm wondering if, perhaps, I might be overdoing it a bit. I really don't have a good sense of what my limits are with regards to how I should behave while sick. Should I avoid climbing until my toe is more healed and my cold is more gone? (It came back today with a bit of a vengeance and congestion.) What about bicycling? Hiking? How active can I be given my condition? How do I tell what's too much and what isn't?

This development is troubling. I'm realizing that I probably should avoid climbing on Wednesday and any other strenuous activity for the next few days.

Any advice you might have would also be helpful! :)

Comments

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I think it was the dehydration more than anything that really zapped you. If it were the cold you would have felt your energy level dropping when we were hiking out to there. I assume you were standing in the sun holding the end of the rope the entire time I was stuck on the wall due to that group's wonky anchor. That you recovered quickly is another good indication it was heat/dehydration. That stuff can really sneak up on you and then hit you hard.