i thought I had recovered from the infection a couple days before we left. I felt pretty good, and finished the round of antibiotics. The stress of traveling, however, did me in. Our flight from SFO to Puerto Rico was a red-eye, and we hardly slept that night. The cruise ship turned out to have a schedule almost 180 deg. phase shifted from ours (it docked from 3am - 2pm PST), and we slept little the first few nights. Then we started getting sick. Similar symptoms to before: sore throat, phlegmy chest, asthma, coughing, sinusitis, etc, getting steadily worse. For the last couple days we didn't even get off the boat.

On the last day we went to see the ship's doctor, who gave me antibiotics and smileycynic nyquil. We're a bit skeptical of his claim that we don't have the same illness given that we've been smooching all week. Still, she is feeling a little better (tho not well), and I am still miserable, so perhaps he was right. I have about the energy level of a 3-toed sloth after a marathon. We're in philly now, visiting my maternal family. I tried to get an earlier flight home but it would have been 2500$ (!), so we're going to lie around here for a few more days. We're skipping the shows we'd planned to see (and successfully got refunds for the tickets, which is nice). My antibiotics don't seem to be helping this time (besides making my intestines feel funny), perhaps I've successfully bred resistant crud.

Bleh. I wish we had stayed home. I haven't been this sick for years. Hope I don't end up in the hospital on IV antibiotics.


Hopefully everyone elses vacation has been better.