It's not broken!

Saturday, August 14, 2010
In the morning Heather came down to check on me and we made the executive decision to go get it looked at. I couldn’t walk on it and when I tried I was really light headed and feeling faint. So we grabbed the bus into town, walked a little to the hospital. When we got there, we had to call my insurance company but we couldn’t figure out how to call collect so Heather had to get phone cards from the mini market and then call. The guy was pretty lame on the phone and was snippy with Heather and made me come to the phone...which was down the stairs, outside. Anyhow, we got it all figured out, I had an x-ray, and then saw the doctors. There was one doctor and two newly graduated doctors with one nurse. So the x-ray showed that I didn’t have a break or fracture which is great but I did injure it pretty good. So the nurse tensored it, the doctor wrote a prescription for an anti-inflammatory and a muscle relaxant and they also gave me an injectable dose there. It had to be an intermuscular shot and being as they are a little archaic, I got a shot in the butt. Great!! It was fine actually and the nurse who did it was really good. Heather was on top of things and seeing what they were giving me and giving her approval!  So we had to go into town, fill the script as well as do a lot of running around. This was not going to work for me since I could barely walk. So Heather lugged all of our bags to a nearby hotel to store them and then went and rented an ATV for us to use. It was great! She drove us into town, filled my script, and we had our first meal of the day at 4 o’clock. While we were sitting on this little side street in town, up walks the Aussie boys we met in Prague and ran into in Dubrovnik. It was crazy! We couldn’t believe that we actually ran into them again. They were pretty funny and had just gotten into town. They were pretty jealous of our ATV and rightfully so. Hehe! It was quite ironic that we saw them for the second time after meeting them. Good times! So anyhow, we went back down to the ferry dock, where Heather was going to drop me off and then go get our bags when all of a sudden I hear someone yelling my name. I turned around and it was Theresa! The Americans were getting on the same ferry as us and heading to Santorini. Again, funny the way things work. It was great too as Scott was really nice to carry my bag for me. Heather took him on a ride on the ATV of which he slung both of our pack around him and rode on the back. Pretty hilarious! So we took the ferry to Santorini, which was almost an hour late and were off to Santorini. We arrived shortly before 10 and had arranged to be picked up which was really convenient. We said goodbye to the American’s and would probably catch up sometime in Italy. We arrived in Fira which is the capital and were greeted by a Greek couple who own the property. When we booked our Villa, we were upgraded because of room availability so we were quite a ways down from reception. This was really bad for me, the walk was steep and uneven. Heather helped me and I took it really slowly. It was quite painful but I did make it. We were staying in a little white concrete house, typical of Santorini and it was really cool. George (the owner) carried my bag down and offered to move our room in the morning but he didn’t have anything tonight. So we showered and pretty much went to bed. The lack of sleep the past few days has really caught up to us and we were pooped.