I also wish you a rapid and full recovery. I can't wait to hear about your next attempt.

On my first fairly long tour, I also got ill. I was in Colorado and one family allowed our group to stay for free in one of the cabins they usually rent out because they correctly assumed that I was too ill to ride to the campground that was supposed to be our destination that night. They even left their store unlocked so we could use the shower in the back. I pushed on and a week later I was too ill to even get out of the tent. The family that ran the private campground we were in drove us back to town to the airport, helped get bike boxes for me and one of my companions and then drove our remaining companion back to the campground so he could continue the journey.

When I arrived back home in the Bay Area, my sister picked me up at the airport. She got a flat on the way home and pulled partially into a private road so as to not block traffic. As we changed to the spare tire, a woman drove up and yelled and screamed at us for parking on private property. It was quite a contrast to what I had experienced when traveling by bike.