Cruise to the Caribbean

While Bob was in the hospital in January, Heather and Scot and I decided we would take a trip to celebrate his successful surgery.  Scot and I decided on a cruise in March.  Heather and I decided to take the grandchildren to Disney World in December.  Well, March arrived and Scot, Bob, and I headed to Galveston, TX to board our cruise boat, Royal Caribbean.  This would be Scot's first cruise.  We have been on many.  Here we are leaving the Port of Galveston.  We were headed to Roatan in Honduras, then Belize, and finally Cozumel.

This is our first dinner and only dinner that Bob enjoyed.

Bob got sick that evening, we thought it was the stomach flu.  I had the flu the week before, so the second day Scot and I were on our own.

We had lunch at Johnny Rockets on the boat.  The waiters entertained us.  Scot laid out at the pool and I got a massage and a manicure and pedicure.  We felt great and were ready for the first formal night.

Bob was still sick, so Scot and I went into Roatan ourselves.  We were greeted at the port.

Scot and I took a small boat to a private island.

The island was beautiful.  Weather perfect.

 We had a wonderful lunch.

Scot and I had our pictures taken by the Mayan God.

A replica.

We went to see the animals on the island.  Scot got his picture with this monkey.

When we got home, Bob was still feeling bad.  He had been to the doctor and the boat and had gotten some medicine.  The next day we docked in Belize.  Bob was very weak, so Scot and I took him down to the doctor's again.  They did and EKG ran some tests and told  us that Bob needed to see a cardiologist in Belize.  Bob said he would rather not.  The doctor told him it was not his choice. So off we went.

Bob's atrial fibrillation had returned.  His blood pressure was high and his heart rate about 140. The boat did not have the facilities to take care of him.  He had to be stabilized before we could fly home to Dallas.  Scot and I went back and got Bob and my luggage.  We decided it would be better for Scot to continue on the cruise, so he could get his car, get Pralines from the kennel and then meet us in Dallas.

This is the cafeteria, outside the main building of the hospital.  You can see things were not ideal.

The cardiologist worked on Bob's medication.  He had several tests and finally 4 days later, Bob stabilized and we got to go home.  The medical staff, nurses and all at the hospital were wonderful to us.  But they also did not have the equipment to help Bob.  So we headed to Dallas, to see doctors there.

We were glad to go home to Dallas.