Best wishes for everyone in both theaters!

You mentioned:
>>>"Went back to the IZ and took a break (get rid of all that water I drank. Anxiety really short cycles the kidneys)."<<<

This reminded me of a really funny part from a great book called "Kayaking the Amazon" by Joe Kane. He writes about scouting the class 6 rapids (many medium sized waterfalls) in the Acobamba Abyss (bad as it sounds!) by means of mostly rock climbing sideways far enough down the next rapid to determine if they would _definitely_ die by running it or just _probably_ die if they missed a critical turn or two.

After returning from each scout, he says something like "unleashing an act of urination that seemed to have nothing to do with my liquid intake over the past 24 hours."

Obviously, the huge difference is they _could_ have gone painstakingly back upstream, your exposure and that of your fellow troops is _not_ optional.