Montezuma’s Revenge
Jul 29
As mentioned in my previous post, the reason for our recent diet can be found in the fact that Pina caught an intestinal blug within a couple of hours of arriving at her parents in deepest Italy.
And naturally she spent the rest of her week down there in an entremely uncomfortable condition which, coupled with an average of 46 degrees centigrade during the day and 34 during the night, turned out to be the kind of holidays you wouldn’t even wish on your worst enemy.
After 48 hours of seeing her rapidly dehydrate added to the fact that the medecine she had been prescribed was totally ineffective (maybe due to the fact that, until that moment, no doctor had seen her and her dad had simply popped round to the local hospital to pick up a remedy or two), her sister contacted the TCS, (one of Switzerland’s automobile association’s) in order to get her shipped back home asap.
In turn, they passed her case onto the REGA (the Swis air-ambulance service) who coordinated the situation from then on. And did so in the most brilliant of ways!
- Got in touch with the above-mentioned hospital to discuss her case
- Organized a doctor to pass by, check her out and prescribe appropriate medication.
- Made sure that a nurse went by an a daily basis to stick some liters of Ringer’s Lactate into her (by then her kidneys were already rebelling from the lack of liquid).
And although she already had a flight back booked on Wednesday (via Rome) they did everything possible to find a direct connection. As the earliest possibility would have been on the following Sunday, she passed.
The cherry on the cake was provided an hour after she had successfully reached home last Wednesday when the TCS rung us to ask if she had made it in one piece.
Totally brilliant! And that for CHF 93.00 per year.
So: guess who instisted on catching up on all the local food she had missed once she felt better again… Naturally, as we are a very close family, we immediately supported her project and assisted her in every possible way! 
Hier klicken!
Oh what a story,your wife must have been terribly scared:( I am glad to read that she’s made it back safe and sound.
The ‘touts-vit’ on itself when on holidays is already scary enough,but coupled with the terrible heat which is currently happening in the mediterreanean it must be close to unbearable and dangerous as well, as you lose more liquid than you can get back by drinking:-(
Luckily the story ends well and is proof that it really pays to be a member of the TCS or a similar organisation!
So enjoy the follow up banquets of yummy food
(though it’s not to my taste :-D)
Gueti Besserig and a Guete:)