The sweets ran out on approximately the fourth day.
After that, she had nothing to eat. She has said she drank creek water throughout the trek, knowing that drinking from moving water was a risk but that dehydration was a more immediate threat. She also relied on her knowledge of the forest — she knew which fruits might be poisonous and declined to eat them; she knew the behaviors of certain animals that might indicate danger.
Half-blind without her glasses, she used her one sandal to probe the water and ground ahead of her for stingrays, which can be hidden in shallow water and whose stings are extremely painful. She moved through the water cautiously, aware of caimans and aware that her movement needed to be calm rather than thrashing.
She has said she did not feel the kind of fear she had imagined fear would feel like in such a situation. She has attributed this, in part, to the shock and concussion affecting her emotional processing, and in part to the familiarity of the forest — it was not an alien environment to her. She knew it well enough that it did not induce panic. She kept moving.
## What She Found on the Fourth Day
On approximately the fourth day of her trek, she came upon a row of airplane seats in the forest.
Three people were still strapped to them. They were dead. They had clearly survived the initial fall — their position suggested they had descended with the seats, as she had — but they had died in the aftermath.