ARRRRR! I have been so fracking sick I can’t even believe it. I’ve been a wantin to stick my head in a bung hold and cover it with grog. (and that will have to do for my pirate talk) I must have either picked up something at the cenote (with all the birds pooping in the cenote, I wonder…) or it was the dirty fork (ours) I used to make myself a slice of bread and peanut butter. At any rate, almost immediately after getting home I started violently “expressing myself” and spent the next day sleeping. All Day Long. Last night I went to bed with a killer headache and finally piped it down with Motrin this morning. I had a visit from a lovely reader but I was so nauseous the first time I’m not sure I made any sense and was in the throes of “ejecting” the second time I didn’t even get to talk to her. I’m so sorry …
I also headed to the doc today to check in on my vertigo issue and he’s done. He’s sending me to a specialist ENT, for whom, strangely enough, we saw advertisements for on the shopping carts at Mega. Not sure if that is a good sign or a bad sign. I’m starting to think that maybe it is time to hit Merida as their medical care is well known and respected. He gave me exercises (that I’ve seen recommended on the Internets) for benign positional vertigo in the event that is the problem and also to help me deal with the effects of the vertigo. When it is bad (some days and all evenings) it is really bad and I have trouble walking.
So…
We really really really enjoyed Valladolid. It is just the perfect sized town for us – not too big and not too small. We loved the colonials, the colors, the return to Real®Mexiconess, did I mention the colonials?, the plaza, the laid-back evening plaza time, the colonials, the colors, I could go on and on, but we really saw only such a tiny glimpse. We were deluged with thunderstorms both afternoons and only got out and about during the mornings and late evenings. So we definitely need to make a return trip. I don’t know how I forgot one of the most wonderful things about Valladolid – the lack of mosquitoes! We were able to sit outside, long after dark, watching the stars and chatting and not once did we swat a mosquito. It was heavenly.
We had amazing breakfasts and I don’t know if it was the extacy of feeding the entire family for $70MN (um, YES matey! That was the TOTAL for all SIX for breakfast buffet!!! AHOY matey! Avast that sailor!) or that the food was actually that good, but we FEASTED on 3 different types of eggs (eggs with chorizo, eggs with ham, and eggs with tomatoes and onions), french toast, panqueques, bolillos (frenchish breadish rollish things), freshly made papaya jam, amazing coffee (we brought our own but the house coffee was the first coffee I’ve ever had anywhere in Mexico that was Good Enough To Drink), freshy squozen papaya, piña, and orange juices, regional sausage (Sissy was the only one who liked it), tamales (dry the only time I tried one), The Best Beans in the Free World (even Jamie who HATES beans loved these beans), and conchita pibil, and fresh fruits of piña, watermellon, melon and papaya. Pike who never liked papaya before has converted.
So, amazing breakfasts that kept the kids fat and happy for many hours. Maybe we need to start some of the same here – feast like a King at breakfast, Prince at lunch and pauper at supper. We had a lovely dinner (of pozole, the day of the grito, of COURSE!) with an Italian who had a place in Tulum, then moved to one of the towns (you all know them) on the road to Coba, then to Valladolid. He does art and now has a restaurant. We went to Ek Balam and loved it and I was amazed that the kids picked out the ball field and where the hoops were missing and identified Puuc architecture. Well, they didn’t identify it as Puuc, but noted the architectural differences between Cobá, Chichen Itzá and Ek Balam. We found the furniture capital of Yucatan state on the road to Ek Balam but the styles were too fancy for us. All in all, we barely scratched the surface and can’t wait to go back. We highly recommend Maria de la Luz for breakfast, lunch or dinner; the rooms aren’t anything to write home about but they are clean, safe, have covered parking (where someone will wash your car and run a greasy rag all over your windshield for only a tip!) and eveything works as long as you’re not wanting hot water at night.
We can’t wait to go back!
Kit, I’m worried about how many times you have been so sick lately – is this part of a Mexico living life? I’m sure you must be doing everything you can to boost your immune system???? It seems like FOREVER since we’ve seen you all and tonight I seem to be missing you all like mad!!!!!!!
Shoot! How could I forget Intl Talk like a Pirate day and me just done ordering all kinds of FSM paraphenalia. May you be touched by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
What you have sounds very much like my recent bout. Watch for dehydration, drink pediolit or some other electrolite solution.
There is a big boom (or a little boom growing larger) of ex-pats renovating colonials in Valladolid, maybe you guys are on to something. I never liked the town but that was probably an old impression. Go for it.
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Have you checked out the chances you may have West Nile. My brother had that last fall he lives in Saskatchwan and some people have been coming down with it in Ontario. The bad headache sounds so familiar, my brother thought he was having a stroke. I am not sure what the treatment was I think antibotics but he was 4 weeks getting the blood work back with confirmation, and he was at least a couple of months getting over it. I am sure you have lots of mosquitos in Mexico, so that could be a problem. Just a thought, take care. Marg Rowbotham Ontario
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Kit, You know we worry about your health, and if you take Jamie to the doctor this week, I hope you’ll get yourself checked again.
I hope you can get something to get you over this bout.
Lots of love and hugs,
mom
Arg! Just wanted to check in with you all (yes, for the first time in months!). We’re now on the East Coast, on Hatteras Island, which is _almost_ as idyllic as the Yucatan Coast, though (hopefully) with fewer ‘canes.
I have been reading, and didn’t want to mention that vertigo was a symptom for when I was diagnosed with MS four years ago — but since it doesn’t sound like you have any other symptoms, you clearly shouldn’t worry about that. Hope it clears soon.
The kids are all well – can’t believe that like you, we’re still doing this after all this time. But our time is limited, as I’m applying to law school (after _finally_ getting a 90+ %ile LSAT) and so I want to make the most of our last year.
Lots of love to you, Jamie and the kiddos. I saw you post on Wunderground a couple of weeks ago, and had to laugh at how our lives constantly intersect.
I am the visitor you were too ill to visit with! I am back home again. Even not getting to visit with you, I am glad I got to see your paradise. I recognized your spot because of all the bicycles out front! It was so wonderful to now have a face for each of your family members. We spent two afternoons at the pool and bar and found everyone just lovely. Keep writing! I also stopped by Mimi and Jonna’s, they were gone also, but I did take a photo of their Class C and left my business card with one of the waiters and ask him to tell them they had a visitor. Your family feels like a part of my family now. Thanks for saying Hi while you felt soooo bad.
Sounds like a mawvelous place. I feel like I just had a little escape from my worries to Mexico reading your last 2 posts. Thank you.
Hope your stomach is on the mend. If it makes you feel better, we have all had it here. Barfs and mucho poopo. Maybe it is just a virus for you as well? I recommend some rum. Arrrrrrrrrr.
Hi Just wanted to Let you know about a friend
that got very sick from drinking her coffee out of a mug she bought in Mexico. It tured out that everyday she was poisoning hereslf with lead
that leached out of the glaze used in making the mug/glasses/dishes So if you are eating or drinking from glazed mugs glasses and dishes test those items for lead !
Hope your feeling better soon