Happy New Year, welcome to 2026. The first seven days of this month were spent on the Emerald Princess cruise ship cruising down Mexico way. We started the cruise on December 30th and celebrated New Years Eve on the ship. We were having a good time until the last couple of days Jackie started feeling puny. We got off of the ship on the 9th and drove from Long Beach down to San Clemente, California to see Jackie's brother, Dennis. By this time Jackie was feeling really bad, cough and runny nose and feeling sick. We managed to go out to dinner with Dennis, but when we got back to the hotel, she said that she was feeling really sick and wanted to go home. We had intended to go to the Coachella Valey to see some old friends from when we lived there. We were going to stay three nights, but instead we drove back to Pahrump. This was Friday, on Saturday Jackie went to urgent care, and they just treated her for a cold or flu. Sunday she was still sick and Monday, the 5th she said she wanted to go to the actual emergency room at the hospital. After examining her and doing tests and scans they determined that she had pneumonia, and they admitted her to the hospital. She was in the hospital, on oxygen and getting all kinds of intravenous steroids and antibiotics. She was really sick. On Monday, the 19th, she was finally released and sent home with 24-hour oxygen required. She was still not feeling good and a couple of days after being released she passed out in the shower and went back to the ER in an ambulance. They released here saying she was dehydrated. She really didn't feel good for the rest of the month. Needless to say, except for some Co-op and Board related stuff that I was doing, we stayed home for the whole month.
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