We had the symptoms of a cold, the only thing hanging on is a bit of a cough, which I undertand can trail on for weeks. I am asthmatic, so maybe a little longer for me. My partner was feeling well enough to workout on the balcony days 4 & 5, but then would relapse a bit, respiratory wise; it's a weird malady.
We both missed Fiji completely and I missed our excursion in Samoa by about 2 hours; I sent my better half solo. Once cleared to move about I did disembark in Apia but just walked around a bit in town; kind of needed a planned event to make that port count, in my opinion. We kept our plans for American Samoa & Tonga without issue and did enjoy them.
We were scheduled to fly out of Auckland on January 26th and departed as planned, managing to miss the atmospheric river disaster completely. Thoughts to those who were not so lucky.
Hope you two are feeling not too badly, having also experienced the bug.