Crossing Pirate Waters (Escape Book 2) by JULIE BRADLEY

Author:JULIE BRADLEY [BRADLEY, JULIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Close Reach Publishing
Published: 2020-01-11T20:00:00+00:00

chapter 15

There’s nothing available. We’ve been booked for months; sailors are going home for Christmas. Did you try the marina at the very north tip of Phuket Island? It’s far up a wide marshy channel so you’ll want to enter on high tide. Give them a call—they usually have dock space. Not many liveaboards there and not many services—people from the village act as taxis and work on boats,” said the man at the main Phuket marina.

Finding dock space for It’s Enough was harder than imagined. Christmas was a week away and friends had already locked up their boat and departed for home. Traveling at holidays was asking for misery and our original plan had been to stay put and celebrate with other sailors at Nai Harn Bay on the southern tip of Phuket. Fate however had other plans.

Living on a boat, it is entirely possible to get so caught up in the excitement of new adventures and discoveries you forget to take care of yourself. There is so much distraction, you ignore a niggling physical problem, thinking it will go away or get better. You push it to the recesses of your mind and just live with it. Until something so startling occurs you have to pay attention.

It started a year before, in New Zealand. Glen was having problems urinating, and a specialist in Auckland told him it was a prostate issue—it happened to most men, eventually. Never one to voice aches and pains, Glen’s situation got worse, yet he kept it to himself. When he started urinating blood, he said something.

Friends declared the medical care in Thailand some of the best and almost had us talked into it. All it took was one night of sleep to come to our senses. America possesses the best medical treatment in the world. With an unlimited range of options, we did not want to settle for less and planned to lock up the boat and fly back to the states, pronto.

While we settled the boat in the remote marina, friends in the states researched top urologists. Boarding the plane in Phuket, other passengers looked excited to be flying home for Christmas. Though filled with concern, Glen and I held hands and talked about all the books we would be able to bring back to the boat and how great it would be to see Glen’s son and daughter and their families. During the long flight I noticed how often Glen had to get up and go to the bathroom. I wanted so badly to ask him if there had been blood in his urine, but I was pretty sure I knew the answer. Glen has an aversion to overreacting and when things get tough, he gets quiet, as though girding for the challenge ahead. We had been through enough challenges for me to know his various levels of calm, and I knew this was serious.

The hustle of Christmas happened around us, but we were in our own bubble. Friends recommended a top doctor in Tucson and the desert city proved a good choice.

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