One Day, Day One

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Western European Time Zone

Things are pretty much the same. Ken is feeling a little better. He has been taking Paxlovid and 2 antibiotics. We brought the Paxlovid with us, just in case. The antibiotics were provided by the ship’s medical office. 

I took another antigen test this morning. I was still negative. Maybe I won’t get it. That happened with my daughter when Eric had Covid. She never got it. If I ever test positive, that will be Day Zero for me, and I will have to go 6 days in isolation from that point. I could end up having an isolation that lasts for the rest of the trip. Oy.

Now I’m going to adopt my picky lawyer persona for a minute. Most people say quarantine when they mean isolation.  When someone has been exposed (or possibly exposed) to a particular disease, they might be placed in quarantine. That is my situation today, though usually the quarantined person is not in such close proximity to the infected person. When someone is infected with a particular disease and we want to keep them away from other people, we place them in isolation. Like Ken.

We had a nice lunch. Ken ordered a special menu item called “Flavors of the World,” or something like that. The theme of today’s offering was “Scandinavian.” He said it was excellent and the herring was the best herring he’d EVER had. It was also the only thing we thought to take a photo of all day. 

Clockwise from the salmon: gravlax, beet salad, shrimp salad, herring, Swedish meatballs, chicken skewers

We slept with masks on last night. Will do so again tonight. It’s horrible wearing masks for 24 hours, except when one of us is on the balcony. Now it’s warm, however, and the balcony is nice.

Ken is mostly sleeping or sitting outside on the balcony. You can hear a couple of other people coughing incessantly on their balconies. Ken hardly coughs at all.

Last night we sailed out of the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar. We are on the port side, and we could see lots of lights on the shores of Africa - mostly or entirely lights from Morocco.

We watched the new Downton Abbey movie tonight. Then we talked about whether there would be a third DA movie, and what time period it would cover (WWII?).

Today’s color is Mediterranean Blue.