So it’s NOT SARS, but let me start again.
I just went to donate blood, b/c I’m a good person like that. They ask you the normal questions and I answer honestly. I tell them about the cruise and ask if I went to the ruins in Cozumel. No, I tell them. We really weren’t in any place more than 8 hours either.
Then she says, “Ummm, where were you in Haiti?”
“On a private Island owned by Royal Caribbean International, called Labadee” I tell her, thinking, no biggie.
She gets quiet, reaches for her humongous infectious places binder and there on pg 3 is a memo stating that as of August 2007 Labadee is know to have outbreaks of Malaria. Not only does that mean I cannot donate for 1 year (understandably) but what really chaps me is that Royal Caribbean NEVER mentioned this. Not one word.
As you may recall I got sick when we came home. I joked that I had “the SARS” and the boy thought I was being silly. Good thing I didn’t know about this then 
Stupid cruise line. I’m not even gettin’ PAID!
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Holy crap! Yeah, umm…that would have been good to know ahead of time. I can’t believe that either a) they neglected to tell everyone or b) they didn’t know.
Ughh, this would send me into a full panic attack, but that’s the hypochondriac in me
Sorry you can’t donate for a year, that stinks!
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