Happy 4th of July everyone!
We spent our 4th in Hilton Head and had a blast. We had a quiet lunch out at a restaurant with the 2nd best ribs we've ever had in our lives. After lunch we cruised to the grocery store on our bicycles to get our BBQ fixings. We headed back to the boat with burger fixings, sausages, and lobster tails. We had a fairly quiet 4th-not very social at all! We had our BBQ, let our meal cool while we watched fireworks, hung out for a little while longer and went to bed!
We arrived last Sunday to the Harbour Town marina here in Sea Pines resort. We ended up going straight to the emergency room! While en route to Cape Canaveral we caught a mahi mahi-which I made into ceviche. Little to our knowledge that lime juice (along with celery juice and a few others) that gets on the skin and then is exposed to the sun causes a nasty reaction called phytophoto dermatitus. The result was nasty burning on my skin. Originally we thought that I had a sunburn but it got worse and worse. 10 days later, Friday afternoon, during the 2nd round of blistering we went to the dermotologist in Savannah who identified it as soon as he walked in the door. It was very painful but the Dr. said it should be healed up in 4-6 weeks and eventually the coloration on my hands would go back to normal.
On Saturday it got much worse-worried that it might be infected. We decided to wait it out until Sunday and see it improved.
The pain in my hands was better Sunday morning but I woke up with a horrendous headache and massive nausea which got worse throughout the day. While Walid sailed us here I stayed below deck in and out of sleep and cold sweats. We then thought that maybe it was an infection of some sort in my hands that was affecting the rest of my body. Walid docked the boat here in Hilton Head and was greeted by the dockmaster who gave us a bottle of wine as a welcome gift. (that has never happened before!) The dockmaster called a cab for us and we took off to the ER. After a short wait in the nicest hospital ever-it felt like a country club and we later learned that the locals call it Hilton Hotel-we were in. The ER doctor checked out my hands and did a few tests. Nothing was wrong with my hand, no infection, healing nicely, etc. but I had come down with a case of gastritutus and as a result dehydration as well. Our guess is the combination of heat, hand pain, heavy exercise, and lack of a desire to eat/drink bc of pain created the "perfect storm" and I came down with gastritutus. I was hooked up to an IV to rehydrate but my headache wouldn't go away. Walid asked for something for the pain-we were thinking of advil, aspirin etc. The nurse came in and she gave me the equivelent of morphine!! By 9 oclock at night we were out of the ER but opted for a night in a hotel where we could watch television and recover. By Monday afternoon I was able to have a light workout, by Tuesday night my appetite was back, and by Wednesday I was fully back normal.
Hilton Head has been a lot of fun for us. It is filled with bicycle trails. There is also a nice gym that overlooks a golf course. We spent the week cruising around on our bikes, looking for alligators, running errands, and enjoying having a gym. It turns out one day we ended up riding 25 miles just cruising around on the foldies! There is a movie theatre about 4.5 miles from here so two nights we went to the movies. We saw The Hangover (v. funny) and The Proposal (v. cute.) We rode back and forth on our bikes with head lamps lighting our way along with all of the teenagers who can't drive yet. The week flew by and before we knew it the 4th had arrived! In a few minutes we are off to the general store in the marina to buy eggs and have a small brunch before we take off for Beufort, SC.
We hope that you all had a great 4th of July!
We spent our 4th in Hilton Head and had a blast. We had a quiet lunch out at a restaurant with the 2nd best ribs we've ever had in our lives. After lunch we cruised to the grocery store on our bicycles to get our BBQ fixings. We headed back to the boat with burger fixings, sausages, and lobster tails. We had a fairly quiet 4th-not very social at all! We had our BBQ, let our meal cool while we watched fireworks, hung out for a little while longer and went to bed!
We arrived last Sunday to the Harbour Town marina here in Sea Pines resort. We ended up going straight to the emergency room! While en route to Cape Canaveral we caught a mahi mahi-which I made into ceviche. Little to our knowledge that lime juice (along with celery juice and a few others) that gets on the skin and then is exposed to the sun causes a nasty reaction called phytophoto dermatitus. The result was nasty burning on my skin. Originally we thought that I had a sunburn but it got worse and worse. 10 days later, Friday afternoon, during the 2nd round of blistering we went to the dermotologist in Savannah who identified it as soon as he walked in the door. It was very painful but the Dr. said it should be healed up in 4-6 weeks and eventually the coloration on my hands would go back to normal.
On Saturday it got much worse-worried that it might be infected. We decided to wait it out until Sunday and see it improved.
The pain in my hands was better Sunday morning but I woke up with a horrendous headache and massive nausea which got worse throughout the day. While Walid sailed us here I stayed below deck in and out of sleep and cold sweats. We then thought that maybe it was an infection of some sort in my hands that was affecting the rest of my body. Walid docked the boat here in Hilton Head and was greeted by the dockmaster who gave us a bottle of wine as a welcome gift. (that has never happened before!) The dockmaster called a cab for us and we took off to the ER. After a short wait in the nicest hospital ever-it felt like a country club and we later learned that the locals call it Hilton Hotel-we were in. The ER doctor checked out my hands and did a few tests. Nothing was wrong with my hand, no infection, healing nicely, etc. but I had come down with a case of gastritutus and as a result dehydration as well. Our guess is the combination of heat, hand pain, heavy exercise, and lack of a desire to eat/drink bc of pain created the "perfect storm" and I came down with gastritutus. I was hooked up to an IV to rehydrate but my headache wouldn't go away. Walid asked for something for the pain-we were thinking of advil, aspirin etc. The nurse came in and she gave me the equivelent of morphine!! By 9 oclock at night we were out of the ER but opted for a night in a hotel where we could watch television and recover. By Monday afternoon I was able to have a light workout, by Tuesday night my appetite was back, and by Wednesday I was fully back normal.
Hilton Head has been a lot of fun for us. It is filled with bicycle trails. There is also a nice gym that overlooks a golf course. We spent the week cruising around on our bikes, looking for alligators, running errands, and enjoying having a gym. It turns out one day we ended up riding 25 miles just cruising around on the foldies! There is a movie theatre about 4.5 miles from here so two nights we went to the movies. We saw The Hangover (v. funny) and The Proposal (v. cute.) We rode back and forth on our bikes with head lamps lighting our way along with all of the teenagers who can't drive yet. The week flew by and before we knew it the 4th had arrived! In a few minutes we are off to the general store in the marina to buy eggs and have a small brunch before we take off for Beufort, SC.
We hope that you all had a great 4th of July!
Burned right hand. 
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