I have a coworker I’ll call DeeCee here, who can tell very interesting stories. I made an animated video from one of her tales, and I’d like to share another.
DeeCee had been trying to enjoy cruises with her husband, but she came down with terrible seasickness on every attempt. No over-the-counter pills or pressure bands or other gadgets she tried seemed to work. Within a short time after boarding the vessel, she was down for the duration, in her bunk, sick as a sea dog. Once she barely made it to the single restroom available when the urge struck in a public area of the ship, and she was almost immediately followed by an anonymous little girl desperate for a place to toss her cookies. They ended up pairs hurling, with DeeCee holding the girl’s hair back while the kid got sick in the sink.
On another attempt prior to even leaving port, the captain informed the passengers that they would be sailing into rough seas and warned folks to get any medications they might need from the ship’s doctor right away, which she did, to no avail. She felt it was hopeless, since even the best of the ship’s doctors’ ideas failed.
It was during a casual land encounter with a seafarer in which she mentioned her seasickness, to which he asked if she had been cruising on ships run on diesel. When she replied yes, the man with all the experience of the sea (and the missing teeth and fingers to prove it) said simply that she was allergic to diesel fuel.
Of course, this means that any cruise involving a diesel powered vessel is forever out of the question, but other boats might be the key to fun few days at sea. At least she got the answer from a source in a true “duh” moment.
You never know where you will get your best advice.
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