Los Arcos

Los Arcos
Pensione Ostadar

Ilaria left this morning. She wasn’t feeling that great herself so she had taken a few days off. Before she left this morning, we went to the clinic in town. Ilaria set up a doctor’s appointment for me and then showed me where the store and farmacia was. My doctor’s appointment is for 2pm.

I really appreciate all the care that Ilaria has shown me. I wish that I was well enough to continue on with her.

My doctor’s appointment cost 126 or 136 euros up front paid in the morning before appointment. It was the strangest medical appointment I have ever had. I was shown into a large room and a medical assistant talks to me from the other side of the room. I tell him my symptoms and am diagnosed from afar. He didn’t listen to my chest, take blood pressure, or my temperature. I am told to take tylenol and ibuprofen and be on my way. Then, almost as an afterthought, I am given a covid test.

My covid test is positive. Now I am seen by a real doctor. He took my blood pressure and it is very high, something like 180/100. I can’t remember the exact numbers. I’m then told only to take the tylenol. By this time, I was very upset and started crying. The doctor tells me that it’s not like the covid from a year ago, I can continue walking on my pilgrimage. He doesn’t seem to understand that I am barely able to stand upright.