After my brain stem strokes and two heart attacks, while coming out of a 10-day induced coma the cardiologists put me in, my wife sitting beside me using a suction wand to reduce the amount of drool coming off my lips as I was still intubated (a tube down my throat), told me about a cruise they had decided to go on after Tim (my oldest son's wife's brother) and his girlfriend Amy got married and wanted to know if I wanted to go on it too. I nodded my head weakly. Well, today is their wedding and we leave on the cruise Friday, an 8-day cruise to the Bahamas and back on Carnival. I know that the Bahamas were decimated and stops and excursions have been altered, but I don't go off the ship anyways, too handicapped. Rest and relaxation for 8 days, my reward for surviving my problems! Then, in June of 2020, we will board a plane to Seattle on the west coast to go on an Alaskan Cruise for 7 days, also! Gotta spend those retirement dollars I worked so hard in cold, wet meat rooms for 45 years for, before I do pass! So, I will be gone from Oct. 11 - 20 on a cruise, watching my diet and no alcohol (but not too close!) and relaxing on deck (I'm always cold now, due to increased circulation from all the operations done on my heart and stents put in) out in the hot sun reading motivational books by Rev, Robert H. Schuller!
