Emergency Room Visit

I forgot to post this in yesterday’s blog, but last night I found out an interesting fact. I asked Pat and Ablerto if they make Alfredo sauce with their pasta sometimes and they gave me the weirdest look. They said, “Alfredo is a person not a sauce”. They didn’t know anywhere in Italy that makes Alfredo sauce!! The Olive Garden has been lying to us all these years, claiming to make authentic Italian dishes. I don’t know about you but I feel taken advantage of.

On a lighter note, I hate to jinx myself, but I had a great day with the boys. Hardly any tears (I didn’t say perfect). I had both of them from 4-7:30. After I picked Ruggie up from school we went to park across the street and played for almost 2 hours. This morning I went to the gym that Pat goes to every week. Her personal trainer gave me a free pass for a week so I decided to visit an Italian gym. I was smaller than American gyms but it reminded me of the Rec center at Tech. After running for 15 minutes (and not dieing) I celebrated by going to the grocery store to pick up a few things Pat needed. Right before lunch I got another really bad nosebleed, so I decided to text Pat to see if she could set up an appointment with her doctor. She called to make sure I was doing okay and told me not to worry they were going to take care of me (ahhh). After dinner Alberto took me to one emergency room but the waiting line was very long so we went to the main Hospital of Torino where they have an ear, nose and throat doctor working nights. The hospital was ugly and very old. I could not believe how different they are from hospitals in America….night and day. We didn’t have to wait very long and the doctor was very nice. She spoke a little English but Alberto was there to translate. She wore an old fashioned doctor’s headband with a light in the front and used medal forceps to look in my nose. She said that I had some damaged capillaries and she prescribed a gel and oral medicine that comes in glass tubes you have to break open. It was very interesting to see inside a hospital even though they give me the creeps. I am feeling much better than I did this afternoon and I’m sure with this medicine I will be fine in a few days. I used the gel tonight before bed so we’ll see how it works.