Covid

Anita had a long-term dry cough that disappeared when she started taking phenergan to avoid seasickness. We thought the phenergan had stopped an allergy-related cough. We both decided to stop taking phenergan Wednesday evening so we wouldn’t be affected by the medication when we were driving home from the airport on Friday.

On Thursday Anita started coughing again, which we thought indicated an allergy-related cough had returned because she had stopped phenergan. She did a Covid test just in case, and it was negative.

We first became aware there was Covid onboard while having dinner on the final night of the cruise. We overheard the people at the next table talking about a woman who was confined to her cabin because she had Covid. Her husband was apparently not required to stay in their cabin.

By the end of our dinner on Thursday night we both started to feel unwell, so went back to our cabin. We both coughed all night and felt ill. Anita was really bad on Friday when we left the ship and travelled to the airport. I was well enough to drive home from the Gold Coast airport.

Friends told us other Roadies had tested positive for Covid, so we tested ourselves Saturday, and I was positive but Anita was still negative, even though we had similar symptoms.

If we had been told earlier that there were Covid cases onboard, we could have worn masks, avoided lifts, and crowded areas.

By today we are both feeling better, and managed to get out of bed and watch some shows on Britbox. I managed to take Bluey for a walk to the beach, keeping well away from other people.

I took a few final photos as we cruised into Sydney Harbour at dawn.