Trip to Italian Hospital...Check

Saturday we had an away game and we won in 4. Sunday I woke up and went to the market with Adri and then came home and went to the men's game.

After that, my stomach started hurting really bad, and I started to get the chills. NOT AGAIN!  I just had the flu a couple weeks ago. Unlike a couple weeks ago, this wasn't a 24 hour thing. Yesterday it didn't get any better, I couldn't eat anything or drink anything, not even water, without my stomach hurting. Then I had been sleeping on and off until about 4 in the morning when  I woke up with horrible horrible stomach pain, a horrible headache, dizziness and a really high fever. I could not lay there and wait for the pain to pass, because it wasn't. So I woke up Lynnea, and she called Antonio and he came and got me and took me to the hospital.
We went to the emergency room, well it was more like a ready care then emergency room, and they took me back to the room. There is only one room, with one table, and a little desk, it wasn't like our emergency rooms with lots of beds with curtain dividers. I am not sure if they have a separate place for real emergencies and this was just for sicknesses, but it was different and really relaxing. They examined my stomach, gave  me some medicine and hooked up an IV. The IV fluids were in old school glass bottles instead of the bagged fluids that we use in the states, I got two bottles of fluid, my headache went away, and my stomach started to hurt less. After about an hour there they gave me directions for what to do at home and let me go. I got back to my apartment at about 7am.
I slept for a long time, and woke up to a text from Antonio saying that his mother had made me some food that the doctors said I could eat, and he left it on the kitchen table. I attempting to eat a little rice, and have been sleeping all day.

I hope this will pass soon, soon as in by tomorrow, we have the Coppa di Lazio finals tomorrow, against Terracina, its an important game, I'm trying to win those medals.

Well now I can check going to an Italian Hospital off of my to-do list...ha


Italian word/phrase of the day: pronto soccorso  "first-aid" (name for emergency room or ready care)