"Roger Long" wrote:

"Rosalie B." wrote


Seems odd that it would take her almost a year to find out that she
was seasick. Could she be pregnant?


Far from the most likely explanation on the basis of process of elimination.

Think what else would you be sick of if you had been out there for that
year. You don't think a guy who would take a crumpet like that who he just
met on a voyage like this was doing his own washing, cooking, cleaning up,
etc. do you? Even if he was, does he strike you as someone you would want
to spend 1000 days with without even some scenery to ease the boredom?

I don't know what either of them are like. I haven't read anything
about them at all. But having been pregnant several times - at least
once not realizing that it was morning sickness and thinking it was
the flu or something, it did occur to me.

I also read in one of Lynn Pardee's books that on one voyage her
seasickness lasted a lot longer than it usually did. (She was always
sick for a couple of days when they started out on any voyage.) She
eventually concluded that she was nauseated from tension. She didn't
understand why because it wasn't that they were going anywhere they
hadn't been or doing anything differently. But once she realized what
it was, the nausea went away.

I didn't realize until I read what she wrote that the same thing had
happened to me. I have rarely been motion sick. But the first time
we went down the ICW I was nauseated every morning. It was just like
being pregnant except no weight gain and no baby at the end..

She should be on "Today" or "Good Morning America" soon so we'll find out.
Might be a smart move. She can (ghost) write her own book about terror at
sea and have it in the stores before he gets back (if).