Sunday, 6 May 2007

Medical Debark

Early this morning we rose...on the gangway by 07:45 to wait for transportation to the hospital. Me, Carys (massage therapist) and 5 other people all going to see the Doc.

Arrived at the cruise clinic and made our way up to the waiting room where there were another 10 people waiting from the Carnival cruise ship. When they put on a DVD for us to watch and brought out the coffee and pastries we knew we were in for a long wait.

First you go through and fill in forms, back out and wait, then on a little golf cart to another building where you have your x-rays done, then wait, go in and see the doc with your x-rays, back out and wait, back in to get the results and paperwork, then wait..............this was a 6hr process- with a good result i might add

I was diagnosed as being unfit for duty so they have signed me off medically, which means I GO HOME!!!!!

but now the race was on, we have to leave the ship by 4pm and it was already 3pm when we left the hospital, got back to the ship at 3:30, straight to medical, race up to the spa to see if our manager had organized flights, nope nothing as yet, back down to the cabin to pack up the last lots of goodies and wait for the phonecall that could come at 3:55pm to tell us to race off the ship...alas that did not happen, no flights for this evening so we are getting off the ship at San Juan on Tuesday, which means another 2 days of Wafting around. It has been nice to be a passenger for a while.

Time to say goodbye to everyone and pack properly!!!
See everybody soon soon soon!

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