We knew that when we went to see the doctor that we would be disembarked. The doctor also let us know that had we waited until morning that Dennis might have died. He was in congestive heart failure.
I had spent the night before packing our suitcases, hunting down clothes sent to the laundry, emailing the kids, and writing farewell notes to our new friends who would not know where we had gone. With just a hour of sleep, I went down to the medical center with our suitcases we would take with us. Dennis looked and acted a lot better than the night before. They had given him liquid Lasix which was like liquid water pills. They had drained 6.5 liters of water out of his body. This took the fluid off his lungs and his other organs. The doctor let us know that this was far more serious than we were taking it and “NO” we could not get back on the ship to finish the cruise. She said that the medical center was like a Insta Care and anything more serious had to go to a hospital in the next port. The last six days of the cruise was crossing the ocean with no port if he needed a hospital again.
The medics from the ambulance came to get Dennis. All he had on was a small sheet and a catheter. Tom Mullen from Cruise Specialists had come to see what was going on. He grabbed a blanket from the doctor’s office to give Dennis . The paramedics had a hard time getting the gurney with Dennis on it down the small hall and steps to get off the ship. Finally they did and got him loaded on to the ambulance and they left.
Tom asked me not to leave without him but he needed to check on something first. There was a port agent there to help me. He arranged for a cab driver to take me to the hotel he had arranged for me and to leave my suitcases there. Then the cab driver was going to then take me to the hospital. Tom came back to me and we left with the cab driver that spoke no English.
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