Both
David and I have fallen foul of a local virus. First David keeled
with flu like symptoms and three days later I too fell ill, too
fatigued to get out of bed, coughing and sneezing we stayed on board
in the quarantine anchorage to avoid spreading our germs to fellow
cruisers. And we felt too sick to get off the boat.
One
of our fellow cruisers is a doctor and he advised we abandon over the
counter cold and flu remedies and each begin a course of antibiotics
– medicines which we were able to buy without prescription in
Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
It
is rare that we have colds because we live in a mostly clean
environment but travelling on public transport and being in crowds
exposes us to germs we have lost our resistance to.
We weren't the only ones to get ill - one cruiser had the same before we arrived and others had similar after us. There must have been something evil in the air.
Happily
we recovered, but it took more than two weeks to regain our usual
energy.
So nice to meet you again in Chaguaramas today after all these years.
ReplyDeleteHad a good laugh about your clearing in procedure in Jacaré. André, the immigration officer at the Policia Federal is legendary meanwhile... we all fell victim to him.
See you in and around Chag!