The Hospital

May 10, 2010
I cannot believe that the time has gone by so fast! I leave in literally 2 days.
Poor Nizhoon has had a bad cold for about 5 days and has been coughing really badly. He boyfriend was supposed to be here Sunday morning, but has had 3 malfunctioning planes. So at 6 am this morning we got an email that he had still not boarded the plane. Then we decided that we had better get Nizhoon to the doctor to make sure she doesn't have pnumonia. So we headed to the "hospital" where we were in for the ride of a lifetime!!!!!
We walked up and the hospital is a bunch of different buildings.... No one knew where we supposed to go, then someone said go to the ER first. We asked a DOCTOR where the ER was he told us somewhere that was not correct, but finally we found it. When we got there, the ambulance people were checking someone in and then the front desk guy took our information and we sat down to wait. Nizhoon was labeled as "white" meaning she was the lowest of low priorities. We sat there for about 3 hours. I watched 10 different "emergencies" come in with the ambulance. They all took presedence over us. We heard a few doctors complaining that they had too many patients to see. We watched everyone get about 5 coffees each instead of helping patients. Italy has public healthcare and from what I saw, it's crap. Heaven help us if we ever get public healthcare. It was a joke. Even our Italian translator thought it was a joke. We left after 3 hours and just decided to self medicate her.
After that we tried to sleep and just hang out then we headed to the school to fill out evaluations and turn in our phones. I know have no way of knowing what time it is, and no alarm. Hopefully I'll get up on time for our flight!
Today was our last day of cooking class and we made tiramisu, some sauces and something else. It was so good and I ate too much. After that we hit up a pizza place for all you can eat pizza. This is not any ordinary pizza. Pizza in Italy is an art. It's so amazing. I can't even describe it!!! Here they had a bazillion different pizza's with FRENCH FRIES and sausage, a vegetarian pizza, a hamburger pizza. Oh it was amazing and I ate too much.
Now I'm home recovering from a very long day. I'm thinking I need to pack but have no desire whatsoever to start......