Back from the dead

ONBOARD THE M/V MALASPINA - - I'm back. As Lydia has mentioned in her blog, I picked up a very nasty bug a day or two before leaving Denali. It got worse, I got stubborn and then my guardian angel marched me to a walk-in clinic in Whitehorse. By this time I was trying to push on with what i think was walking-pneumonia (having had this already). The doc took my $$$, listened to the congestion in my lungs, and then wrote a order for some strong antibiotics. The cure was almost worse than the malady. Today, Monday, I feel better; not fine but better. I don't cough loud and long while gasping for breath and I don't wheeze and gurgle when I lay down.