57redbird

On 2/1/2024 at 8:25 PM, Haljo1935 said:

You can do either. To pre-purchase, just go to "packages" from inside your booking. It will give you the price for your cruise. No discount to prepay, so if you want to use OBC, you can do it onboard.

Safe travels - enjoy your cruise!

We prepurchased it along with Club Orange but got a paid upgrade to a Neptune which included both - we were refunded the price of both.

On 2/5/2024 at 5:02 PM, mawvkysc said:

When did it go up to $40. The highest I’ve heard of is $35

I think it depends on the length of the cruise.

32 minutes ago, kazu said:

 

thanks 🙂. I always need days to make sure I get it right 😉 

Thanks!

24 minutes ago, kazu said:

 

Happy to do so - I’m not sure if this is a 7 or 9 day sailing or something else.

 

Could you kindly share the # of days?  thank you 🙂 

Sure - it's an 11 day.

On 2/7/2024 at 12:17 PM, latebuyer said:

Thanks for the reply.The pacific coastal i am looking at is in may and i am looking at a mexican riviera in november 

November is still part of hurricane season in Mexic0.

@kazu  Please add us to the December 10, 2024 Koningsdam Mexican Riviera sailing.  Our 1st since (finally) reaching 4*.  Thanks, Pat & Mike (57redbird)

7 minutes ago, bennybear said:

It was in Noto.  They have a flower festival where they decorate the streets with flower paintings.  I am guessing it’s for that. 
 

The picture I'm curious about has witches hats & briefcases.

@Sharon in AZI think you've got your islands mixed up - sounds like your on Oahu, not Maui.

2 hours ago, bennybear said:

Good morning and thanks all!
We enjoyed Catania,  last time we went to Ortygia and Noto on a private tour which I would highly recommend.   The food and wine were  great, Nero d’Avila

Please explain the 3rd photo if you can.

Progress report - I took 1 - 300 mg gabapentin at bedtime last night -- only woke up twice because I needed to go to the bathroom, not because of pain!!!  YAY!!! was a little uncomfortable this morning but the last pain med I took was at 2 pm yesterday.  I'm supposed to increase the gabapentin in a couple of days but don't think I will - depending on how I feel.  A couple of tender spots on my leg still but not like before.

Cucumber Mojito is my fav from there.

@JazzyV  I'm sorry the gabapentin didn't/hasn't helped you.  I had to call the dr's office earlier because I hadn't been notified by Walmart that the Rx was ready.  When the PA ordered it, he had written too many directions & the computer wouldn't take them all so it just aborted the order but didn't notify anybody...the PA or me.  I'm glad I called Walmart & found out they hadn't received the order.  He reordered it & called me to let me know.

Since I'm still having left hip/thigh & leg pain I talked to the ortho doc's PA.  He thinks it's nerve pain so I'll be starting Gabapentin....hope it helps.

On the K last year, in order to avoid people sitting on the stairs for presentations, they scheduled a 2nd session in the afternoon to accomodate everyone....maybe that can be done on your cruise.

53 minutes ago, CruiserBruce said:

Guessing you are talking about staying in San Diego? They do A LOT of big conventions there.

Yes I am.  Seemed odd that so many properties were marked 'Sold Out' in January for December.

If anybody's thinking of booking this, there's a medical convention with a whole of attendees that ends Dec. 10 so there are limited lodging options.  

1 hour ago, SusieKIslandGirl said:

@57redbird

Here's what's in my back ..

I had no neuro symptoms.

I thought you had mixed up your x-rays with DH.😊 But then realized that his shows bars on either side of 3 vertebrae. Wild what medicine can do! And so far, he doesn't set off the scanner at the airport. Happy to hear recovery is going well.

Who did your DH's surgery?  Dr. Jeff Garr at Swedish did mine.

Got the original one but so far no follow-up one.

@Quartzsite Cruiser  t was my DH who had the polymer ties, and no back pain after the surgery.  The raddioloy technician at the h9spital told me they redo a lot of traditional back surgeries to remove the hardware.

Sorry for replying to the wrong person....I think my 'hardware' isn't metal - just the screws are.

@StLouisCruisers  I want a do-over on my fusion...that looks way more comfortable!

Used to be 7-8, now it's 2-4.

Just now, 57redbird said:

 

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Here's what's in my back ..

I had no neuro symptoms.

2 hours ago, Quartzsite Cruiser said:

We did better at trivia this afternoon.  DH joined Debbied  @dfish and me.  We followed in our leader's, Rich @richwmn,footsteps.  We had 13 correct and the winners had 14.

 

Later, we cleaned the salt off the chairs and balcony rails, but still couldn't sit outside, since we were still getting salt spray.

 

 

I don’t think you will get a completely definitive answer since everyone heals differently, and everyone's damage from spinal stenosis is different.  What I can tell you from what DH's neurosurgeon said and from what I've read, is that it takes about ten months for the vertebrae to fully fuse.  His doctor followed his progress for a year.  DH also had no back pain, but severe pain from sciatica.  That disappeared after the surgery.  However, the leg numbness he experienced has not disappeared, but it might be lessening very, very slowly.  Nerves do take a lot longer to improve.  I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer.  Another difference is his surgeon used the Karma system which replaces the metal rods and screws with polymer ties.

 

Lenda

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2 hours ago, marshhawk said:

@57redbirdYour surgery seemed quite major to me, and i think you have come a long way in 7 weeks.  But my question to the doc would be, when does the pain go away.

 

DH thought he would feel fine after the last angioplasty, and he is still in pain.  Knowing he is going in this week for more major surgery on the artery is not making him very happy.  But one of his meds makes him a tad obsessive and things must be done...NOW..  so when he was not supposed to be lifting things,  he was.  When he was supposed to lie flat, he went to work and sat up for hours.  And then wondered why he was in pain for two weeks.  I guess after your  major surgery , 7 weeks aint that bad.  ? What do I know, pain is pain, and it wears you down.

I've asked anybody & everybody who might have an answer & I've not gotten the same answer from any of them....could be anywhere from 3 months to 2 years....I'm hoping to be on the shorter end of the time frame.

2 hours ago, smitty34877 said:

@57redbird, It sounds as if you are progressing very well. Is there a difference in the type of pain or is it similar to the old pain?

 

@marshhawk,Sorry about the cough but glad you are resting.

 

@Seasick Sailor Oliver is such a cute boy. I love how our two pooches help as well.

I didn't have any back pain before the surgery....I thought I had sciatica -- the pain in my left leg is different than the pre-op pain --- that was shooting, stabbing spasms.  Now it's a dull, fairly constant ache - sometimes in the front of my thigh or back of it & down my leg.  The motivating reason for the surgery was we are headed to our timeshare on Maui in early March & I thought elective surgery, close to home, would be a better choice than emergency surgery there.