Alien in the Stomach

The Murphy's Law says that something not much positive happens exactly at the most important moment. Just like this was the day originally meant for total relaxation and packing of all the stuff necessary for the summiting. Normally leisure and then focus. But as Jan got up in the morning he exclaimed that he hadn't slept really throughout the night. Intensive convulsions accompanied with diarrhea kept teasing him for the night and he could hardly move in the morning. Immediately, medicaments were applied but only the diarrhea stopped and Jan kept wincing. He was trying to convince me that it would be alright by the next morning but I knew that we would not leave the camp by that time at all. The convulsions were still that strong that Jan was silently groaning yet at 10 pm. At that moment I got the idea to give him our traditional medicament, the charcoal, which finally helped him.