So … we decided we’d try again. Or rather, I decided *I’d* try again. 🙂 It was relatively spur of the moment though … the plane, the weather and me all set to go up to Virgina to have lunch on our anniversary. 🙂 Sounds pretty neat, right?
Ron had everything planned, updated everything Sunday night when we decided to try for it and come Monday morning at 10:15am, I took two 550mg Ginger Root pills and hoped for the best.
We got to the airport around 10:45 am, and started the engine around 11:15am (ish).
I was fine! Woohoo!
The propellers didn’t bother me a bit!
So, up we flew. I was looking outside, looking at the charts, generally just watching the show. Saw houses with pools, Jordan Lake, Pittsboro and then …
down I went. 🙁
It was about 20 minutes into the flight (maybe 25) and I had to stop reading the map and looking outside. I tried SO hard to focus, but every time I did, my head would spin. So I tried looking only outside. No good. Only inside. No good. Closing my eyes. Everything.
I started doing some serious yawning (never a good sign) and tried breathing deeply. 🙁
We passed Burlington and that’s when I told Ron had *had* to land. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it … my head, my stomach ick! My legs were weak and I was getting clammy and outrageously hot.
Ron landed (as quickly as he could) and once the motor was off, I got out … slowly and we spent 1/2 an hour in the Burlington airport for me to recover and tried to decided how I was going to get home. 😉
I decided I’d just do like I would in a car … close my eyes and “go to sleep”. But, I took two more Ginger Root pills, just in case. 😀 We departed with me “asleep” and the trip back was FAST! We had an awesome tailwind and I could feel the plane just speeding along. It was quite cool. 😉
No problems on the way back since I was “asleep” but it took a good ‘nother hour for me to fully recover.
I was SO excited when the Ginger pills seemed to be working and SO bummed when they stopped working. It really sucks because I enjoyed my 20 minutes with my hubby, up in the air. And when I’m all fully recovered, I look forward to going up, because I forget what I feel like when up there.
🙁 So sad.