Our European Trip: Barcelona

On our last night in Bordeaux we ate dinner at an English pub and Ryan started not feeling very well.  We all thought it was likely all the wine we drank from the winery day and being possibly overdone.  However the next morning Ryan woke up and was really really sick.  He couldn't eat breakfast and the walk to the train was miserable.  He was a real trooper but once we got on the train (a 12+ hour train ride) Ryan basically stayed in the fetal position.  I've honestly never seen anyone with such uncontrollable shakes (chills) and such awful sweats like he just ran for a few hours.  He was under all the blankets we could find, a sweatshirt and jacket but it was not helping.

Then finally a sweet old grandma across the aisle from us went and got Ryan a hot cup of milk.  For those of you know Ryan, he doesn't drink milk but he was in such dire need he didn't even care.  Then with the help of a fluent Spanish English speaker we understood that this grandma also was giving Ryan some fever breaking over the counter pills.  Again in such dire need Ryan took them.  They were totally safe so no worries people but if you had seen him, you would have taken anything too.  These meds did help for about 1-2 hours but then Ryan would start to feel really crummy again.  

LONG story short, the next morning Ryan decided it was time to go to the hospital.  Luckily Liz is a Spanish major so she was most helpful is getting us checked it at the hospital.  And although I am a Spanish minor I was no help as I was so upset and worried about Ryan.  After a few bags of fluid for the dehydration and at least two bags of antibiotics, an xray, and SEVERAL blood tests it was determined that Ryan had an infection in his intestine likely from bad water.  

The only thing we can trace bad water back to was in Bordeaux at our B&B, Ryan used tap water to mix an airborn/vitamin C drink.  He says he didn't even think twice about it but everywhere we were served bottled water, even at the B&B.  A small mistake but it was costly.  

So after about 7 hours in the hospital Ryan finally got discharged and we were on our way back to our apartment.  While we were in the hospital Dustin and Liz enjoyed a wonderful day of sight seeing and eating. I have a few pictures from their day but I couldn't really tell you what they saw or where they went.

So here was the only picture I took of Ryan from the hospital.  He wasn't in the picture taking mood while being a patient.

To say Ryan was bound and determined to get out of the hospital and enjoy Barcelona is an understatement.  I thought we should spend the rest of the day laying low and just hanging out at our apartment but Ryan had to go see the Sagrada Familia Cathedral.  So Dustin left with him to go see it while I napped at the apartment.  I was exhausted!

We did finish the night back at our apartment eating ice cream and watching some tv.  Everyone was early to bed as we were all exhausted.  Oh- I forgot to show you the apartment...

So Barcelona hardly had a fighting chance to be the favorite spot of the trip but we made it through.  Ryan got some antibiotics for the next 5 days and we left after two nights on our way to Dubrovnik, Croatia!  Up next for our journey is the AMAZING stay in Croatia!  

Until then,