Hospital visit

Well yesterday was a bit of a drama. A friend went to the doctor's surgery and ended up being shipped off to hospital for some tests. That's not so weird in this country, but hugely inconvenient.

She was worried about her kids being left home alone if she had to be admitted and mentioned this to the surgery, who went a little overboard and told her they'd involve social services. So I ended up being on red alert to go over and spend the night, as a 'responsible adult'. 

I was just giving up on her being home in the evening and getting my shoes on to head over when she was released. We have a ludicrous situation here where they take you TO hospital for something as simple as an Xray but not BACK so she was then stranded in the city with a potential 100 euro taxi bill, so my partner drove into the city and picked her up very late at night.