APHASIACS VACATIONS



 If you had a stroke and the problems with aphasia and are afraid to even leave your home and become a vegetable, forget it.

A brain is a tunnel with billion tracks.

I know it is difficult for us, and I was afraid of going to travel, but after my first vacation on the sea, I found a new life - cruising on ships.

So enjoy a trip to my tunnels.
ZENITH
 ZENITH was my first cruise in 1999 when my caregiver, Wayne, decided to take me to relax for a vacation after two years of my stroke. I really did not want to go, mostly because I thought they were boring on a ship for a week. The other thing was that I was afraid of being on a ship. What if I had another stroke or a seizure?

The best thing was that we would be on the ship on the sea for three days and the other four days on land. The land was Bermuda.

And I fell in love with Bermuda.




























Great beaches, great people, great sites.


 Nevertheless, the ship was our hotel where we got breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and every midnight a buffet. That is always a problem on ships, when we go back home we are a little fatter.

Another important thing was that as always the staffs are great. As Wayne all the time when be board any ship, he tells people, like our waiters, stateroom assistants and cruise directors for shows and games, that I had a stroke and with my aphasia it was difficult for me to communicate so they have to talk to me slowly. Our first dinner waiter, Tom, when I had to order, he knew that the right side of my ear couldn't hear well to he always moved to my left side on my table.
Sadly, when we left Bermuda, all the passengers were depressed because no one wanted to leave the ship. The food was wonderful, the shows were good and it was always great when every day there was a schedule of what you wanted to do in the ship.

 That evening, something weird happened. I thought we had gone into the Bermuda Triangle. The sky was full of fog, couldn't even see the end of the ship.

Then that morning I woke up early and I saw chair sitting in the middle of the sea, which unfortunately it meant that we are close to New York.

We said good-bye to our Zenith, and Wayne was very happy that I enjoyed my first cruise and could not wait to go to another cruise, this time in the Caribbean where I could visit islands I never went.
GALAXY

Did I say I liked the Zenith? Then I really fell in love with my Galaxy!