DOUBLE YUCKED

January 23, 2020

This has been an awful day your favorite cruise talker.  I’m congested.  I’ve been barking and hacking.  And when I started to do my Social Media talk at 10 o’clock I got a coughing fit.  So I took a dose of my codeine cough syrup.  Big mistake.  Really big.  Huge.  I was wacked out for the entire talk.  I’ve never smoked left-handed cigarettes, but I’m sure it is a similar feeling.  I leaned against a post for the entire talk, and according to my cruise buddy, I was at least one slide behind for the entire production.  But the people were gracious, telling me they enjoyed the talk.  I was still a little wacky for the 3:30 talk, and I’m definitely through with the cough syrup until I am back at 233.

Hopefully “Museum Mosaic,” the art talk, will be drug free tomorrow.

And since I am still loopy, I am going to let Bonnie blog.  I can’t even type kerect.

TTFN

What a day!!!!!  First when we left Tortola, yesterday we were 2 hours late because a medical emergency. No not him. As soon as we got on the way I noticed we were rolling again. Well, as today has progressed it has gotten worse. And tonight it is really rocking and rolling!!! This has been a very rocky cruise in more ways than one.

We slept till 8 this morning and went to breakfast about 9. He had a cup of coffee and I had a yogurt and hot chocolate.  We went straight from breakfast to his talk. I could tell he was having a tough time with the talk. I just prayed he would make it to the end. And I had to call about the pins again. They said the girl was there and finally they told me she was behind the stage searching for the pins!!! Oh my. These have been the poorest helpers we have ever had. At least the tech guy has been good.

Well, after he finished we started walking down deck 5 and toward the front of the ship  and the elevators to the room. I didn’t think I was going to get him there. He was slow and I was pulling his briefcase and trying to keep him upright. When we finally got to the room, I put him to bed in my bed because his was not made up. It had been turned back into the couch. I covered him and he slept for 3 hours straight.

I got him up at 2 because we had another talk at 3:30. We went back to the Lido and each had a small sandwich from the deli. At 3 I sent him to the lounge and I went back to the room to get his briefcase. He did better in the second talk but by the end he was again exhausted. I got him back to the room and said we are not going to dress for the elegant night we are staying in and will grab a small bite later in the Lido. We rested and about 6 went to the Lido and again had something from the deli because the buffet was yucky looking. Nothing else was open or available.
After that we went to the dining room to explain why we hadn’t been to supper because they cancelled our reservation and we wanted to be sure we had a table tomorrow night. Tomorrow I have to try and pick up luggage tags so we can get off as early as possible on Saturday. Our suitcases have to be out between 7 pm and 10 pm. Because he has 2 talks tomorrow , one at 10 and one at 4, we will have to go directly to supper from the talk to make our reservation and directly back to the room after supper to pack and get our suitcases out on time. This has been a difficult cruise. Things on board have not been very smoothly managed by the people in charge.

I sure hope the seas settle some but it seems to be getting even worse this evening.
So far I am okay. I have taken some coricidin to try and prevent me getting whatever.
Well, we are going to watch a little TV and then go off to bed.

Love you all. Mom Granny and Bonnie