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A wheelchair is missing; the cruise line says it has 90 days to find it. The cruise line tells him it has 90 days to look for the missing chair. He says he parked it outside his cabin the night before he got off.
HUDSON - What he lost on the cruise ship was not a wallet. Or a watch. Or a camera.
Technically, what he lost wasn't even his.
"It was the VA's," Michael Karagiannakis, a 75-year-old Hudson resident, said glumly this week. "I don't know if they're going to ask for it back."
The wheelchair wasn't the fanciest. Just a simple nonmotorized design, sort of dark in color.
He had been using it since early December after suffering colon surgery complications that left his legs swollen and sore. The chair went everywhere with him on that Caribbean cruise: the pool, the ports, anywhere he had to walk more than 10 or 15 feet.
Until the evening before the return to Tampa. The crew told him to leave the chair outside his room, along with his luggage, which would be waiting for him when he disembarked on Jan. 6...
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