So imagine how it must have felt for Caleb Reynolds.
Caleb was simultaneously panting and unresponsive and had to be medically evacuated via a helicopter.
But what happened next?
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Where did that chopper take him?
What does he remember?
When did he start to feel better?
What was it like watching it play back on TV?
Caleb answers all that and more.
Here are some of the highlights.
On when he first noticed something was wrong:
“It was pretty much after the challenge.
I’m guessing it was due to adrenaline.
I wanted to win and it was this thing in my head,you could’t stop.
I wasn’t sweating anymore.
My skin was dry.
I started to get dizzy and there was a little spot of shade.
And that’s really the last thing that I remember.
I don’t remember anything else after that.
I was getting really sick.
I had a headache and my eyes were getting really blurry.
That was it.”
On watching the episode on TV:
“It was a bit emotional.
“Sorry, I’m getting emotional now about it.
But it was emotional.
I didn’t know what I went through.
My family didn’t know what I went through.
I could only just tell them, ‘Hey, I fell out.
That’s all I can remember, and I woke up in a helicopter.
I don’t really know anything else.’
So sitting down and watching it and realizing this is what I went through was kind of tough.
It sucked that I had to leave that way.
“But to be honest, that’s the only way that I would leave.
I gave it my all and that was the outcome.
But watching it last night, it was a little hard.
You know, if it was live I can only imagine.
But medical was on top of it and practically saved my life.”
And I remember she said, ‘If anything happens to you, double-check this comes home.’
So he grabbed my hand and pushed it back down.
And I started crying and…” the formerBig Brothercontestant began to tear up once more.
“I was like, ‘Why am I here?’
And he goes, ‘I had to pull you from the game.’
And I was like, ‘No.
I don’t want to go back.
I’m not done.
I…” Caleb trailed off, overwhelmed.
On what happened after the helicopter ride:
“I was out again.
The scariest part was somewhere in there they transferred me to an ambulance.
I had no clue where I was.
I had no clue why I was there.
I started asking these people, ‘What is in me?’
And they pretty much again had to grab my arm and say, ‘No, it’s okay.’
So I just lay down, pretty much in tears.
He came in the second day and I was on my seventh bag of saline.
The doctor came in and said, ‘How are you feeling?’
That was probably the third day.
He said, ‘You’re through seven bags of saline.
How many times have you went to the bathroom?’
I said, ‘None.’
And he just couldn’t believe that’s how dry I was.
On if he wants to playSurvivoragain:
“My bags were already packed last week.
But that’s not all.
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