Marlene’s “double whammy” health issues on the NCL3 cruise – flu-like symptoms and a swollen and discolored leg – has been diagnosed as a single problem – cellulitis, probably from a scratch she got while giving her dog a haircut before the cruise. She is on antibiotics now and the flu-like symptoms that subsided before the end of the cruise have not reappeared, so she is recovering. But the leg remains swollen and painful. Not a fun way to be at Christmas.
The doctor has advised her to keep the leg elevated, so we have been spending a lot of time watching movies while she lies in the recliner with two pillows under her leg. I doubt that she will be ready to dance on New Year’s Eve. But neither will I – I am scheduled for eyelid surgery December 30 which pretty much guarantees that I will have two black eyes then.
Are we beginning to show our age?