Bad Day

Sunday 13 May

Yesterday was a day full of energy. Today the opposite. So she took it easy. We expected friends to come over by 5:00PM and Lara took pains of doing her face up and wearking her, yes, patent leather Ferragamos witgh a black dress.

Around 6:15PM she developed a shivering fever, which within half an hour shot up to 38.4, then to 38.7C. We called up the duty nurse (a familiar face), who was there within ten minutes. She in turn called our GP, Willemot, even though she was not.on call for the weekend. Together they decided to administer Novalgine to bring the fever down and Litican against nausea.

Gradually the fever went down and she started to feel better, still unsure of what caused it all. Around 9:00PM she was even ready to partake of the homecooked Italian meal prepared by friends on the spot. 

Conversation picked up again and everybody left around 10:00PM. As I look over to her, she is soundly in sleep.