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My mother-in-law Barbara walked the Camino Frances in 1985 - well before mobile phones and the internet. While Barbara was walking in Spain my wife picked up the phone at home in London. Her mother calling from Spain with a message for her husband: "Tell Taffy the stitches were taken out today". As Taffy hadn't received the earlier message about Barbara's fall and her visit to a local hospital this wasn't quite the reassuring news it was meant to be! Took quite some time to get the whole story straight.Here is a memory from November 2004 that shows not all accidents end badly; at Hospital de Orbigo after falling flat on my face I met my first unforgetable camino angels
truenorthpilgrim,
So sorry to read of your troubles. Do rest and take care of yourself.
Here is a memory from November 2004 that shows not all accidents end badly; at Hospital de Orbigo after falling flat on my face I met my first unforgetable camino angels
Mine happened yesterday. As I was walking out of Porto I suddenly felt ill and vomited (didn’t even take off my backpack). I was about 4km into my walk. Then as I continued it got worse and worse. Like I was laying on the ground on the sidewalk, locals staring at me. Finally I made it to a town (total 8 km) with one hotel which was fully booked. I then collapsed in the lobby so the front desk guy called and ambulance. Ended up in the hospital with some medication to stop vomiting and got an IV drip. I was there six hours. I’m ok now but could only walk 8km today. Hope you feel better!! Burgos isn’t a bad place to be sickJust like the title says! I’m sick again in Burgos, more like run down, needing a lot of rest. I know things are unfolding as they should, but my ego is taking a bit of a bruising. I had a whole plan for my Camino and of course god/life laughed at me. I also suspect I’m feeling terrible again because I didn’t finish my round of antibiotics (I know, I know, I’ve restarted them).
So please, as I’m stuck in a hotel, needing some encouragement and reading material, share with me your “it’s all falling apart” Camino stories.
And because I don’t want to be a total pessimist, please share how going wrong ended up being “perfect timing”/going right (if that applies to you).
Mine happened yesterday. As I was walking out of Porto I suddenly felt ill and vomited (didn’t even take off my backpack). I was about 4km into my walk. Then as I continued it got worse and worse. Like I was laying on the ground on the sidewalk, locals staring at me. Finally I made it to a town (total 8 km) with one hotel which was fully booked. I then collapsed in the lobby so the front desk guy called and ambulance. Ended up in the hospital with some medication to stop vomiting and got an IV drip. I was there six hours. I’m ok now but could only walk 8km today. Hope you feel better!! Burgos isn’t a bad place to be sick
Sorry you're not well. I really hope you're better soon.Just like the title says! I’m sick again in Burgos, more like run down, needing a lot of rest. I know things are unfolding as they should, but my ego is taking a bit of a bruising. I had a whole plan for my Camino and of course god/life laughed at me. I also suspect I’m feeling terrible again because I didn’t finish my round of antibiotics (I know, I know, I’ve restarted them).
So please, as I’m stuck in a hotel, needing some encouragement and reading material, share with me your “it’s all falling apart” Camino stories.
And because I don’t want to be a total pessimist, please share how going wrong ended up being “perfect timing”/going right (if that applies to you).
Yea it was definitely food poisoning. It was either eggs I ate that morning at my hostel (I emailed them but they haven’t replied) or a dodgy avocado toast (that was premade) I had the day before.Oh my goodness I’m so glad you’re ok! Do you think it was food poisoning? It’s so miserable to be sick and crawling to the next destination. Please take it easy. And yes, Burgos is a nice place to recover.
They can’t reply. You ate them!Yea it was definitely good poisoning. It was either eggs I ate that morning at my hostel (I emailed them but they haven’t replied) or a dodgy avocado toast (that was premade) I had the day before.
So glad to hear doggie is on the mendSorry you're not well. I really hope you're better soon.
We are travelling in a motorhome. I walk and my husband brings the van forward each day. He then walks a couple of miles to meet me at the end of my day. We'll, that worked for a few days until the dog started acting weird. Then her head swelled. We were in Zubiri. No vets. We rushed her to an emergency vet in Pamplona to discover she had been bitten by a viper. Cue 48 hours at the vets followed by a slow recovery.
Husband took me back to Zubiri where is walked, tearfully to Pamplona. I cried all the way. Totally hated it and didn't have the energy to watch the seminar Santa processions.
Just for info, the dog is recovering well and I've got my walking mojo back. Just done 16 miles to Navarette.
My pride pushed me to walk to Puente la Reina where I am again bed-ridden with a swollen knee and leg
Thanks LizB! I’m wondering if you stayed at Albergue El Pajar de Oncina? I stayed there a few years back and completely fell in love with the place.We stayed at Oncina -- just past Leon.
Well, my story is not that dramatic. But I caught a bad feverish coughing bug probably from someone very sick in the bed next to min in the large albergue in Pamplona. Some days later I developed a bad cough ... and then ... fever![...] And because I don’t want to be a total pessimist, please share how going wrong ended up being “perfect timing//going right” (if that applies to you).
Two minor thingsJust like the title says! I’m sick again in Burgos, more like run down, needing a lot of rest. I know things are unfolding as they should, but my ego is taking a bit of a bruising. I had a whole plan for my Camino and of course god/life laughed at me. I also suspect I’m feeling terrible again because I didn’t finish my round of antibiotics (I know, I know, I’ve restarted them).
So please, as I’m stuck in a hotel, needing some encouragement and reading material, share with me your “it’s all falling apart” Camino stories.
And because I don’t want to be a total pessimist, please share how going wrong ended up being “perfect timing//going right” (if that applies to you).
Wow, what an experience! And what a journey. Really moved by this piece of writing, remembering those times.The State of Emergency and the End of the Camino: Escaping Spain before Lockdown
I am merrily walking along The Way on Thursday 12th March. I arrive in Reliegos, and knock on the door of an albergue. Everything seems to be closed. The hospitalera explains that the autonomous co…covid19andtheendofthecamino.wordpress.com
My story is on my blog.
The 2020 date likely gives it away!!!
I hope you recover quickly x
Surrender is a good characterization! Good luck.Thanks LizB! I’m wondering if you stayed at Albergue El Pajar de Oncina? I stayed there a few years back and completely fell in love with the place.
Also wow, what a journey you two had! At some point you just have to surrender-hopefully I’m getting to that point.
I second your post @mary_mh - I too have been moved by Curly Cath’s account of the difficulties in having to leave Spain.Wow, what an experience! And what a journey. Really moved by this piece of writing, remembering those times.
I was riveted reading that blog post and your subsequent posts. What a ride. Glad you returned to walk again.Thanks! I got covid on return and long covid, and still have longer term health impacts from that time like asthma. I returned last year and walked again. I really wanted the experience of walking out of the desert, so I restarted in Burgos and walked to Sarria
Thanks! I hope you recover quickly xxI was riveted reading that blog post and your subsequent posts. What a ride. Glad you returned to walk again.
Absolutely love this!I am lying in a pool of blood, my blood, on the side of the road in France en route from Rome to Santiago. Lucky for me, it is the day of presidential elections, so there are people and cars on the road. Ordinarily there would be few.
A woman, on her way home from voting, sees me fall and approaches. She waves down a passing car, one of her neighbours who, again fortunately, is a hypochondriac. The boot of his car is full of medical supplies. He staunches the blood flow from my nose and forehead and calls an ambulance. Within 20 minutes the ambulance arrives from Nice and whisks me away to a hospital where an angel sews me up with 11 stitches.
I am lying in hospital all sewn up and not knowing what will happen next, when an English speaking nurse tells me that they have received a phone call from a woman who is looking for me and wants to take me to her home. It was the woman who had first came to my aid. Was it OK to tell her I was here? My bloody oath it was!!
She arrived with her son, took me home, introduced me to her husband and dog. Her husband quickly poured me pastis and later vin rose with ice. I was fed, watered, my clothes washed and given a bed for the night. Next day they drove me back to the camino.
My injuries, although bloody were not serious. Fortunately my nose was not broken. I had the stitches removed in a hospital in Arles (where I stayed with the author of the Lightfoot guides). I was told that the nurse who had stitched me up was an Artiste. I quite agree.
This was one of the best experiences of my life. Most certainly a Mushkil Gusha incident.
What appears to be bad can sometimes be extraordinarily good.
Does wandering hospitalero count as a "camino story"?So please, as I’m stuck in a hotel, needing some encouragement and reading material, share with me your “it’s all falling apart” Camino stories.
While I do get upset when people have difficulties, I admit to getting more upset when it's an animal, particularly dogs. So sorry to hear of this scary situation and am happy things are improved.Sorry you're not well. I really hope you're better soon.
We are travelling in a motorhome. I walk and my husband brings the van forward each day. He then walks a couple of miles to meet me at the end of my day. We'll, that worked for a few days until the dog started acting weird. Then her head swelled. We were in Zubiri. No vets. We rushed her to an emergency vet in Pamplona to discover she had been bitten by a viper. Cue 48 hours at the vets followed by a slow recovery.
Husband took me back to Zubiri where is walked, tearfully to Pamplona. I cried all the way. Totally hated it and didn't have the energy to watch the semana Santa processions.
Just for info, the dog is recovering well and I've got my walking mojo back. Just done 16 miles to Navarette.
"...And all manner of things shall be well."Just like the title says! I’m sick again in Burgos, more like run down, needing a lot of rest. I know things are unfolding as they should, but my ego is taking a bit of a bruising. I had a whole plan for my Camino and of course god/life laughed at me. I also suspect I’m feeling terrible again because I didn’t finish my round of antibiotics (I know, I know, I’ve restarted them).
So please, as I’m stuck in a hotel, needing some encouragement and reading material, share with me your “it’s all falling apart” Camino stories.
And because I don’t want to be a total pessimist, please share how going wrong ended up being “perfect timing//going right” (if that applies to you).
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