Day 15 Part 1
October 29th - At Sea
We woke up this morning and Kira still had a little bit of a fever. She crawled into bed with me while Rob was showering. I still felt she was OK and that she just needed some extra rest and TLC. We tried taking her temperature with the ear thermometer but it just wouldn't work. We have one of these at home and Kira hates it. So after 4 tries and her completely flipping out, we gave up. It was hurting her ears so we didn't try again.
Guys don't understand this but as a mom, I just knew she was OK, and not in any danger. I've felt her with a much higher fever than this.
Rob went to return the thermometer while we snuggled and when he came back he was all flustered. He told me that they wanted to see Kira right now. He said they were concerned because she had ear pain.
Ummm. Her ears hurt because we kept jabbing that thermometer in there to get a temperature. They didn't hurt
before we did that.
We had a long drawn out discussion about it but Rob was just not budging at all.
I told him that it was going to be expensive and despite having bought medical insurance from our bank before leaving home, it might not be reimbursed because you need to contact them before you seek medical attention.
He didn't care. He took Kira and left for the medical centre on deck 1.
I hadn't showered yet and I looked like the living dead so I hopped in the shower and joined them as soon as I could.
I got down there and they were waiting in the reception area for some medicine. Kira was jumping on and off the couch and running everywhere (not the look of an extremely sick child).
So I asked Rob what was going on and he said "H1N1" with a big smile on his face, as if to rub it into my face that he was right and I was wrong.
He said that we were all going to be given Tamiflu and they were just waiting for it now.
I wanted to speak directly to the Doctor so after about 5 minutes he came out and I asked him exactly what was going on.
Now, I am sure Rob will chime in here because what he heard from the doctor during this conversation is completely different from what I heard. I guess there are two sides to every story so I will let him tell you his story if he wants to.
All I can tell you is what
I heard from the doctor and this is what he told me.
He said that it seems like she has the flu. He said that there is no way on board to test for H1N1 but because it is the most common flu these days that they are going to treat it as H1N1. He said that the Tamiflu is given to patients to treat all kinds of flu (not just H1N1) so he was going to give her 5 days worth for her and because we live together, we also were given 3 days worth so that it's not passed around.
I asked him, in his medical opinion, if he thought she did, indeed, have H1N1. At this point he looks down at Kira who is practically climbing up Rob's leg. He grins and says that she seems fine, she's acting normal and that he's not worried.
So we pay the nearly $400 bill and go back to the room.
We weren't quarantined in any shape or form, in fact, the doctor never even told us to stay in the room or to stay away from people. The only thing he wrote was that Kira couldn't go into the kids clubs, which was totally understandable.
Other than feeling really sleepy, extra cranky and moody, she was still our little Kira.
Rob seemed to be doing much better by now and I was doing a little better too. I was tired and achy and by lungs were burning but I was trying to have a positive attitude and enjoy the rest of the cruise as best as I could.
Rob and Kira stayed in the room while I met up with some BOBers for our BOB lunch at Lumieres.
I wasn't sure if I should go to the meet being sick and all but I figured as long as I didn't hug anyone and that I stuck around Bernie and Sean and Nancy and Chuck (whom I've been around this entire cruise anyway) that it would be OK.
Plus I was rather sick of eating chicken strips for lunch by now
and I've heard that they made a good burger at Lumieres using normal white buns!!!
There ended up being 5 tables of BOBers I think and although I didn't socialize as much as I would have liked, it was nice to see everyone. Up to that point, I hadn't seen many BOBers this cruise, having missed the first meet and being with Kira 95% of the time in kids clubs or toddler areas. There were still BOBers I haven't even met or seen yet!
*I just reread my second day at sea and realized that I totally forgot to mention that I did get to meet up with some other BOBers at the Smoothie Meet. There was a BOB Meet inside Cove Cafe at 3pm on our second sea day. There was some confusion because there ended up being 2 Smoothie Meets, one was much earlier and it was outside near the adult pool. Not sure if that was intended to be a more private meet because I didn't get an invite but I did manage to get to the official meet, albeit a little late.
We had a fabulous time seeing some old and new faces and while it would have been much better if we were in a bigger location, it was still really fun to chat with everyone!*
Here's a pic of our table. This is Matthew's photo, not mine. Thanks for the photos Matthew!
Lunch was pretty good! It was nice to have a nice soft white bun again! The fries were excellent, I wish I had gotten more than 8 of them!
After lunch it was time for the BOBer group photo in the Atrium.
I went back to see if Rob and Kira were up and wanting to join me for the photo op.
This is what I found when I got back.
They were both awake moments later though and so we went down for the group shot.
The pic from my camera wasn't that great so I borrowed this one from Matthew.
This was the second pose with the ladies on the left and the men on the right.
The guy who was running the auction, which was to be taking place a little later on, was kind enough to take many, many photos of us.
To be continued...