Over the past year, existing got erased from my knowledge book because i couldn't do things that i did for myself. I don't want to live like i've lived a good bit of the last year. My oncologist, knowing my love of cruising, was all in favor of me going on cruises. They look at it and realize how important it is to my mental health when i can do what i love the most.
Charles Falls Jr., known as Chillie, loves to take cruises. But Covid, as it has done for so many, left him marooned at home in Virginia.
As he told Cristal Duhaime, a producer at the Times podcast First Person, as soon as restrictions eased, he eagerly planned a return to the waves. But for Chillie, who suffers from prostate cancer, resuming his beloved travels — particularly aboard the cramped quarters of a cruise ship, most people’s idea of a pandemic nightmare — was especially perilous.
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