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Bad leg on the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we beginning to show our age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-47s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}