PHOENIX, AZ (KPNX) — An Arizona who was stranded in the desert for two days recorded parts of the ordeal on his cell phone, and says he even drank his own urine to survive at one point.

It all started when Mick Ohman drove up to the mountain town of Crown King on Thursday, July 27. He decided to take the scenic route back to his home in Phoenix, but the road ended up being more of a rugged trail, filled with ravines and boulders and not meant for his two-wheel drive Honda CR-V.

“It was bouncing bad and all of a sudden my engine disengaged,” Ohman said. “I couldn’t go forward and couldn’t be backward.”

Ohman had destroyed his transmission. And he was stranded about 16 miles south of Crown King. He had no cell phone reception and a cooler filled with just one bottle of water, two beers, a sandwich and bagel chips — all in triple-digit temperatures.

“It got to the point that I couldn’t swallow and my throat would stick together. I would gag,” Ohman said.

“I was forced to drink my own urine at this point, in order to swallow. It wasn’t as obnoxious as I thought. It wasn’t salty, and it quenched my thirst. But it was warm. Straight from the tap, I guess,” he joked.

Despite all that, Ohman mustered the strength to make his version of an SOS. He put his spare tire on his SUV’s windshield and created a big H out of rocks, hoping a helicopter or plane would fly over and see he needed help.

He also recorded a message on his phone for his sisters, Mitsy and Mindy.

“If you find this phone and I didn’t do so well, please tell my sisters how much I love them,” Ohman recorded.

After two days of waiting, Ohman set off on foot to try to find help. He was lucky to find Troy Haverland, who was trail-riding on his dirt bike.

“The feeling was like, oh, I can’t believe this. I just went into prayer right away,” Ohman said. “I was half out of it. my legs were bleeding. I was just a mess.”Read more: http://bit.ly/2uh5VVp