Burning the candle at both ends of the volleyball spectrum, indoor and beach, caught up to Bermuda’s Island Games stalwart Yves Charbonneau today.Feeling the effects of dehydration, Charbonneau felt faint after he and Bermuda I beach volleyball partner David Gazzard played a punishing three-set match against Menorca in the mid-morning, 85-degree heat at National Sports Centre.Charbonneau was attended to by St. John’s Ambulance attendants, and assisted by Games volunteers at the National Sports Centre pavilion. He spent more than an hour at the pavilion, taking on fluids and eating, before taking the short ambulance ride to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where he spent more than three hours hooked up to an IV.He and Gazzard were scheduled to take on the Cayman Islands I team of Shervin Rankin and Richard Campbell at 5 p.m. in quarter-final action — but Charbonneau was still feeling unwell, resulting in a Cayman victory by walkover.Yesterday morning’s beach match was Charbonneau’s sixth since the Games opened on Sunday.On opening day, he played a beach match at 10am and an indoor match at 8.15pm against Aland.On Monday, he played a beach match at 9am, and also competed in two lengthy five-set indoor matches — the first at 12.15pm against the Faroe Islands and the second at 8.15pm against Saaremaa.“Monday was a very long day, particularly with the two five-set matches, ” the 39-year-old Montreal native said. “We had also played on Sunday night, and it didn’t leave much time to rest.“After the match against Menorca I was on an adrenalin high. I sat down, and I was fine, I was talking to people. But as time went by I started to lose it. I felt weak, dizzy and felt something was wrong. I didn’t pass out, but my breathing was laboured. The first aid crew were superstars. I am definitely going to take them flowers on Wednesday.”Charbonneau has lost 10 pounds off his customary 6’3’’, 185-pound frame since Saturday.“I have been eating well,” he said. “I have had protein, carbs, fruit, and I have been drinking lots of water but we sweat so much during matches. It was just the accumulation of so many matches in three days. My kidneys have been bothering me for a couple of days due to the dehydration.”While the beach players have endured 85-degree temperatures outdoors, the indoor teams have played in gyms at Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy where the air conditioning has not been turned on.“Yves has played a lot of volleyball it has been very hot in the gyms as well as outdoors,” Gazzard said.”Charbonneau, an actuary who has lived in Bermuda since 2003, said he and Gazzard were disappointed to withdraw from the Games. “We trained very hard for this, and really felt we had a shot,” he said.Still, he and Gazzard may have one more beach match to play. “Shervin has offered to play the quarter-final against us off the record,” he chuckled.Three members of Bermuda’s women’s squad Stacey Dorush, Heather Wearmouth and Allison Lacoursiere are also pulling double duty, playing both beach and indoor volleyball.“We are very conscious of our eating habits, our hydration and our rest,” Dorush said. “It’s important to eat a lot of carbs and protein.”