Truck Lag
October 29, 2014
Being sick when you're over the road sucks!
To be fair I doubt being sick at anytime is on anyone's list of top fun things. But when you are traveling it is even worse. All you want is a dark room, a soft pillow, a comfortable bed, and lots of quiet. Instead you are in a big truck traveling 70mph down bumpy interstate roads, up and down mountains, and often crazy traffic. Now imagine all that motion on top of four great big air pillows! The cab of our truck sits on these, "air ride", it helps cushion the jarring from the road. But when you are laying down in the sleeper on a spring mattress it feels like being bounced around on a trampoline. Fun.
I'm not really sure what was wrong with me. It started sometime Sunday, but really hit me late Monday. For a little over 24 hours I had no energy or appetite. I didn't even want to drink anything. At one stop before it hit full force we were walking back to the truck and I had to lean on him to help me because I suddendly felt overwhelmingly exhausted. I wasnt sick to my stomach. No fever. No sniffles or coughing. Just pure exhaustion. Oh and a whole lot of peeing even through I wasn't drinking anything.
He says I was probably suffering from road or truck lag. Essentially the same principle as jet lag. In the past 3 weeks I went from living on the east coast at or below sea level for most of my life, to traveling over the smokey mountains twice, across the midwest plains three times, up, over, and down the rocky mountains four times, and from the coastal pacific northwest, down through Texas, and back to the east coast. Thats a lot of time zone, climate, and altitude changes in a short amount of time; especially for someone who isn't used to it.
Thankfully today I feel almost normal. We stopped and got a long hot shower, a hot cup of coffee, and a good meal. Tomorrow on to new adventures.
~sierra
To be fair I doubt being sick at anytime is on anyone's list of top fun things. But when you are traveling it is even worse. All you want is a dark room, a soft pillow, a comfortable bed, and lots of quiet. Instead you are in a big truck traveling 70mph down bumpy interstate roads, up and down mountains, and often crazy traffic. Now imagine all that motion on top of four great big air pillows! The cab of our truck sits on these, "air ride", it helps cushion the jarring from the road. But when you are laying down in the sleeper on a spring mattress it feels like being bounced around on a trampoline. Fun.
I'm not really sure what was wrong with me. It started sometime Sunday, but really hit me late Monday. For a little over 24 hours I had no energy or appetite. I didn't even want to drink anything. At one stop before it hit full force we were walking back to the truck and I had to lean on him to help me because I suddendly felt overwhelmingly exhausted. I wasnt sick to my stomach. No fever. No sniffles or coughing. Just pure exhaustion. Oh and a whole lot of peeing even through I wasn't drinking anything.
He says I was probably suffering from road or truck lag. Essentially the same principle as jet lag. In the past 3 weeks I went from living on the east coast at or below sea level for most of my life, to traveling over the smokey mountains twice, across the midwest plains three times, up, over, and down the rocky mountains four times, and from the coastal pacific northwest, down through Texas, and back to the east coast. Thats a lot of time zone, climate, and altitude changes in a short amount of time; especially for someone who isn't used to it.
Thankfully today I feel almost normal. We stopped and got a long hot shower, a hot cup of coffee, and a good meal. Tomorrow on to new adventures.
~sierra
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