Cruise Day 35
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Well instead of a better night last night, my coughing was worse and we didn’t get much sleep. Val thought it was time to head back to the doctor’s office and see what could be done about this cough. The odd thing is, I really don’t feel very bad, I just can’t get rid of the cough.
After breakfast in the Neptune Lounge, I asked Kyle to make me a doctor’s appointment with the doctor. She made it for 10:45, so after breakfast we returned to the room until it was time to go down to the medical center.
It turned out to be a wise decision to go back to the doctor. She prescribed some codeine with Tylenol pills for my cough and that was what I’d hoped for. Quite a while ago, Val and I both had bronchitis at the same time with a bad cough, and the doctor gave us a cough syrup with codeine in it, and it worked wonderfully. This was just the pills, but I figured it would do the same job. She also prescribed a short regimen of steroids to reduce the inflammation and more cough syrup although the cough syrup has never worked very well.
After returning from my doctor’s visit, Val and I went to lunch and once I had eaten, I took my first dose of codeine and prednisone. It wasn’t long before I felt the effects of the codeine coming on; my coughing stopped, but I also grew very drowsy. We did go to the casino after lunch, but I didn’t stay long and spent the rest of the afternoon dozing, until it was time to go to trivia.
I was staggering a bit, but I made it. Arthur didn’t make it today because he had lost his voice, but Donna was there and I warned her, I was under the influence of narcotics and probably wouldn’t contribute much (I rarely do anyway so it didn’t matter). 😊 We did rather poorly, but the questions were hard and nobody else did very well either.
After trivia, it was back to resting for me until dinnertime. It was another dressy night tonight and neither one of us felt like getting dressed up, but we did it anyway. Tonight was a surf and turf night, but Val doesn’t care for lobster, so she had only the steak, and I didn’t feel much like steak and had only the lobster. I took another dose of codeine after dinner, and we called it a night.
It was early, but we went straight to bed as we were hoping that tonight we would have a good night’s sleep as tomorrow we’ll be in Bora Bora.
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