Sickness & Recovery, Brooklyn Boulders, Future Plans at 9:21 AM

YO!

So lets see...

I got really sick last week, from sunday to sunday i was barely able to walk.

my liver became inflamed, i didnt eat more than two bowls of soup for 5 days, vomitted blood, had a steady fever, lost a total of 10 lb.s, and my urine was dark brown.

saturday i forced myself to eat so i wouldnt have to go to the hospital.

they thought i had hepatitis a, but thankfully the blood tests came out negative.

i go back to the doctors next week to get a couple more tests done.

on sunday i started feeling a little better, and since i had to cancel a trip to the gunks, instead i decided to go to gsr for an hour.

i felt pretty weak.
next day i went back and still felt pretty bad but almost sent a new v7.. (now that i look back i think it may be kinda soft for a 7.) next session i felt a little better and got it right away

im not allowed to eat things with fat, caffeine, obviously alcohol, and im supposed to regulate my protein intake to about 40-60 grams a day.

to a person thats targets around 140 grams of protein a day...thats a major setback. (although i hardly hit that goal daily...lol.)

so it felt like i was told i wasnt allowed to get stronger for 2 weeks. kinda beat.

i feel the effects, i feel like its taking longer to recover and im not able to unlock the potential i should have by now...

anyway. i checked out brooklyn boulders with jj last saturday. the place was insane! so many problems, some really really fun setting, and a cool environment.

i sent a bunch of 5's and a 7. i was projecting a couple more 7s and 9s. on two v9s i got about halfway, and i feel i could get much farther if i was fresh. theyve been haunting me and i really want to go back to send them.

we mostly stuck to ivan's problems, they seemed to be the most fun.

there was a really cool stemming v4 with two giant features that was really sweet, and the most fun dyno problem ever that was a v5. (video footage below of a really funny burn. lol.)

i really want to go back there. i feel like going there could really give me the potential to be strong. theres a lot of things out of my grasp, and problems that can teach me new moves and techniques and stuff. thats really what ive been looking for.

i went to gsr on monday, and still felt sore from saturday. we bouldered saturday night from 8pm till 12am.

i was kinda upset i was still feeling weak. ive started to gain back some weight, but i doubt much of it is muscle because of my diet..

im debating right now whether to go climb between now and sunday...

sunday i plan on going to the gunks. i hope to have lots of fun and to be able to try some hard stuff beyond my ability.

soo i want to be able to be at full throttle sunday...idk. maybe ill wait.

at the same time i want to get stronger for sunday...but if i climb today i might still be sore..ahh! too much thinking.

anyway. ive been watching videos from niagara glen. i really really want to climb there. it looks insane. the rock looks so good and the problems are hard and really cool.

maybe ill go there during winter break if its not snowing.

idk!

i need to get outside, even though its getting cold.

so for now, check out a vid from brooklyn boulders featuring the most fun dyno ever, and a really embarrasing fall. lol