Well, 2021 didn’t start quite how I expected it. Whilst Christmas was tranquil, smooth and very relaxed with no drama, this is not quite what happened on New Year’s Eve!
The day started with the normal flurry of activity associated with hosting a big event. Here, it’s summer so the COVID restrictions are fairly light and we were able to have a family gathering. The day proceeded with all the usual preparations and at about 8.30ish people slowly started arriving and so we moved on to the milling around and chatting kinda phase, taking photos, helping put bits and bobs out etc. During this time, Noly mentioned to me he had a bit of a stomach ache and we assumed it was a hunger stomach ache and thought it likely to go away in a minute when we started eating, but it didn’t. The clock struck twelve, we all went around “salut”-ing (cheers), and looking at the fireworks, before Nolz had to go lie down.
I shall spare you the gory details but poor Nolz spent the evening intermittently freezing cold and with bad stomach pain and the other half of the time running to the bathroom ready to throw up. I spent the time sat with him, in all my gladrags- new dress and shoes and makeup done all nicely ready for the occasion but never mind! At least we had a new years case before he was sick…
Anyways, a coupla hours later he was much better and the next day after a trip to the hospital and lots of antibiotics he was a lot better thankfully.
Fast forward a few days and you’ll never guess what happened to me… It started at church where I started feeling very bizarre… Again, I shall spare you the details, but started with stomach pains, developed to me being sick in the bathroom of the hospital and ended, unexpectedly, with an injection in the rear. Unfortunately the latter blemished my record of never having such an injection. It was quite an experience I’m not going to lie! She literally threw it at me like a dart which was a bit of a shock😂
But anyways, I felt a bit rough for a coupla days, still getting the stomach pains and feeling very weak and tired but eventually I slowly got back to normal, enough that I was able to start enjoying our holiday in Cafayate… However, more about our holiday in the next blog post because I’m such a tease 😉
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