My wife and I have cruised 3 times with Carnival in the Caribbean. We had planned for a Western Mediterranean cruise last year until a shocking discovery of lung cancer in my wife blew the whole plan out of the water.
After a surgery, many radiation treatments and an on-going chemo treatment, we never thought another cruise was possible, but her oncologist gave us the good news in Feb: her cancer is stabilized. And the good doctor highly encouraged her to go out, be active, and take a vacation....
With that, we resumed our planning and soon gathered 9 more friends and siblings to go along.