I’m sorry if there’s not a bundle of laughs, chortles, or even titters in tonight’s shorter episode of An English Fool Abroad with his Sketchbook. There were no plans for an excursion today since it’s the Feast of the Assumption and a public holiday as I mentioned yesterday. However the day turned out to be a little more eventful than I expected. John wasn’t well at all a couple of days ago. He seemed better yesterday, but was worse again today. I knew that he was feeling even worse today when he said that he thought he should go to the hospital.
We all went to Accident and Emergency – Urgencio – together, in the Hospital Del Vinalopo in Elche. John was assessed fairly quickly – his blood oxygen level was very low, and then taken off with Jen for treatment. I spent quite a long time in the waiting room, which was no hardship really since I had my kindle and sketchbook as well. I quickly sketched the entrance to the hospital, then rather surreptitiously made one sketch of the waiting room, but there’s always the danger that the people you’re sketching will cotton on, and get shirty, so I dashed off the one sketch and left it there. So it was a choice between reading my kindle, and watching ‘Got Talent Espana’ (I’m not making this title up) – Spain’s version of, well, work it out for yourself. Blimey, but it goes on for a long time, that show! Or maybe it just seems to. Most interesting act I saw? Two guys running up and downstairs carrying huge trays of glasses. One of them fell. That’s entertainment, folks.
Jen and I had some lunch in the hospital while John was being x-rayed. He’s been diagnosed with pneumonia. That’s not nice, not nice at all, but he’s been treated for it before. Eventually the doctors made the decision to keep him in overnight. So basically, that was today folks. Being in the hospital, we missed the main event of the day. Rain. Lots of it. Now, if you’ve never spent a large amount of time in this part of Spain at this time of year you maybe won’t appreciate what makes it a main event, but you’ll just have to take my word for it.
Evening visiting came and went. Jen went by herself, but came back saying that John said that he was feeling better.
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