Caribbean Princess
Day 4 - Roatan
June 5, 2018
This was a not so good day. In the middle of the night, JC turned to get out of the bed to go to the bathroom and slammed his pinky toe, dead on into the wall! He was in pain and thought he might have sprained it but it was not swollen or bruised. We waited until the morning and he could not walk on it as it was too painful, again with no swelling. This was weird no? So we called 911 to have them bring up a wheelchair to bring him to the medical center as he could not walk on it.
As we go down to the medical center, they did the normal review of his foot and at first, didn’t want to take an x-ray. However, I told them to do so as I didn’t want to take the chance that it was broken and not know. The nurses and the doctor were very nice and really took care of JC. The doctor examined him, took x-rays and found out that he fractured his toe! The fracture was in a diagonal and still intact. That was the good news. Bad news is that it would take 4-6 weeks to heal. With that said, the doctor gave him pain medicine, ibuprofen, and crutches. There is not much you can do for something like this but only to bound the toes together as to not further injure it. In addition to the crutches and not knowing how his walking capabilities would be, I also requested a wheelchair. I had to cancel our shore excursion which was disappointing, and find other ways for us to get around the ports.
Because the wheelchair was rented through the cruise line, you could not use it off shore. It was very difficult to find accessibility offshore or for Princess staff to help in any way to accomplish this. JC was a trooper and trekked through it and wrapped his toes. We were able to walk off the ship, walk to just the shops, and get back on board while I carried his crutches, just in case he needed them. Although we really wanted to be able to do some shore excursions, any kind of walking would have further risked injuring his foot and I just didn’t feel comfortable in doing that.
So we went back to the cabin and rested for a while. Again, this was a very different cruise than an Norwegian or Royal Caribbean Cruise. This was a relaxing cruise and not one where everyone is partying all the time. In one way, that is disappointing as we are night people and love the night life and entertainment. On the other hand, you didn't feel pressured to be anywhere or do anything and that was a bit relieving in some way. But geez!!!…. I felt that this was more of a dead ship than even a lively one. Everything closed so early!
We got up later and got something to eat. Then off to explore the ship some more as most people were in bed. Even the casino closed early so we had to call it an early night. Bummer....
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