Earlier in the month, a 51-year-old woman on the Carnival Magic<\/a> was taken from the ship by helicopter 180 miles from Galveston<\/a> after suffering from respiratory problems.<\/p>\n Also last month, near New Zealand, a 23-year-old passenger had a suspected heart attack and was flown from the Seabourn Odyssey<\/a> to a hospital.<\/p>\n The bottom line is what one ship’s doctor told us last year.<\/p>\n “The best place to have a heart attack, or many other medical problems, is on a cruise ship,” he said. “You pick up the phone in your stateroom, call the medical center, and we’re in your room within minutes. And we have all the equipment needed to deal with such emergencies.”<\/p>\n And when necessary, to bring in a helicopter.<\/p>\n That doesn’t mean medical emergencies always have happy endings. It just means there’s a good chance that they will.<\/p>\n And of course this applies to the thousands of people who work on ships, too.<\/p>\n Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas<\/a> Over the past couple of weeks, there have been at least three reports of airlifting cruise passengers from ships for medical reasons…obviously emergencies. A week ago, on the Carnival Triumph, an eight-month-old baby was having seizures and had to be airlifted to Houston. Earlier in the month, a 51-year-old woman on the Carnival Magic was… Continue reading If Sick, May It Be On A Cruise Ship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[137,154,391,647,912,72,819,35,828,26,27,33,152,773,299,1706],"class_list":["post-23234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-magic","tag-carnival-triumph","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-enchantment-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-odyssey","tag-sickness","tag-sickness-at-sea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n\t3 nights
\n\tApril 24, 2015
\n\tPort Canaveral<\/a> (return): Nassau<\/a>, Coco Cay<\/a>
\n\tInside: $284
\n\tCost per day: $94<\/strong>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"