Radial change of plans.
For months now, we've been looking forward to a seven day cruise through the Eastern Caribbean with Mom & Dad Fitzgerald.
After driving for the better part of three days in order to travel central Michigan to southern Florida, let's just say that we were ready for a break.
The cruise started beautifully with a snack, a meeting, and then more food.
However, immediately after dinner, Loren noticed something unusual. We had just been to the doctor two weeks ago, and everything seemed fine with the pregnancy, and at that time we were about 11 weeks along.
Returning to the cabin, she found that she was bleeding just a little. We thereupon called the ship's doctor, who reacted very alarmedly to the news. He left to check with the bridge, and upon arrival at our cabin, informed us that the entire 90,000 ton cruise ship had turned toward the city of Freeport, Bahamas, where they would be disembarking us for further and more thorough medical care.
When we halted a little off of the Island, the waves were too severe to launch the ship's boat, so a tug boat had to come get us. The bow of the tug was sometimes 3 feet below, and sometimes 2 feet above the edge of the door as it rolled and jostled in the surf. They finally got it calmed down enough to get us aboard, and subsequently to the island.
We spent several frustrating hours in the overly crowded government hospital before eventually convincing their staff that we could get better care at the private clinic down the road.
The cruise ship agent transferred us to the other hospital, and waited with us through the whole ordeal which continued until about 2:30am before we were allowed to rest.
At this point, it seems that Loren was bleeding from a fibroid. The baby in her womb appears to be fine, and the best medicine they can prescribe is rest.
The doctor tells us that we will be unable to rejoin the cruise ship, so we are thinking about resting for a few days on the island before returning to Florida.
Thank you for your prayers for a safe and God-glorifying result to this mysterious situation.
IN Christ Alone, Buddy for the family
After driving for the better part of three days in order to travel central Michigan to southern Florida, let's just say that we were ready for a break.
The cruise started beautifully with a snack, a meeting, and then more food.
However, immediately after dinner, Loren noticed something unusual. We had just been to the doctor two weeks ago, and everything seemed fine with the pregnancy, and at that time we were about 11 weeks along.
Returning to the cabin, she found that she was bleeding just a little. We thereupon called the ship's doctor, who reacted very alarmedly to the news. He left to check with the bridge, and upon arrival at our cabin, informed us that the entire 90,000 ton cruise ship had turned toward the city of Freeport, Bahamas, where they would be disembarking us for further and more thorough medical care.
When we halted a little off of the Island, the waves were too severe to launch the ship's boat, so a tug boat had to come get us. The bow of the tug was sometimes 3 feet below, and sometimes 2 feet above the edge of the door as it rolled and jostled in the surf. They finally got it calmed down enough to get us aboard, and subsequently to the island.
We spent several frustrating hours in the overly crowded government hospital before eventually convincing their staff that we could get better care at the private clinic down the road.
The cruise ship agent transferred us to the other hospital, and waited with us through the whole ordeal which continued until about 2:30am before we were allowed to rest.
At this point, it seems that Loren was bleeding from a fibroid. The baby in her womb appears to be fine, and the best medicine they can prescribe is rest.
The doctor tells us that we will be unable to rejoin the cruise ship, so we are thinking about resting for a few days on the island before returning to Florida.
Thank you for your prayers for a safe and God-glorifying result to this mysterious situation.
IN Christ Alone, Buddy for the family
Wow thank you for sharing....sometimes the Lord has to take us mommy's out of the way so the daddy's could have alone time with there babies!!!!
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