Well, I did go on my cruise — one of the last ones before all the cruises stopped because of the coronavirus. We’ve now been home 2 weeks with no sign of illness, so I’m pretty sure we dodged the bullet, although a few people on our ship have since come down with it. We had missed the first port stop (the cruise line’s private island in the Bahamas) due to bad weather, and then Grand Turk wouldn’t let us dock because of coronavirus fears, so we went back to the private island on the last day. Still had a good time; the JoCo Cruise is never about the ports for us anyway.

As I expected, hearing on the cruise was challenging. I faked my way through a lot of conversations, but mostly managed to at least understand enough to get the gist of what people were saying. The Aqua Case worked great for swimming and snorkeling, although I need to make sure to turn up the volume a bit more next time, because my hearing aid is not waterproof, which means that the CI has to pick up the slack for both ears.

I had mixed results with the assisted-listening devices on the ship. The first one I got didn’t work at all; I only got static. The second one was much better, but it only worked in the main theater, so it didn’t help when there were events I wanted to attend in other venues on the ship, and I skipped the land concert entirely because I doubted my ability to hear it. And at least one performer stepped away from the microphone and spoke to the audience without it a couple of times, which meant I didn’t hear a word of what he was saying. (Thankfully, Ray is really patient and told me what he was saying.)

And now, of course, we’re socially isolating like most of the rest of the world, so my life is pretty quiet. I’m glad I had a mapping not that long ago — no idea when I’ll be able to have another one with a pandemic raging.