An eventful day but not for the right reasons.
Our hosts were both out from 7 this morning so we made the effort to arise early (Susan forced me out of bed) to meet Marilyn since she was working last night.
After breakfast we headed into Gympie so Susan could get some cross stitch patterns printed at Officeworks. Officeworks isn't in Gympie so we resorted to Office National. After a brilliant idea from me to use the office XPS document format to get the prints from the proprietary format in the program on her laptop to something that the shop could print from an email the patterns were printed.
I returned to put them in the car while Susan went to buy vitamins. I strolled to the chemist and was perusing the specials table when my phone rang. It was Susan telling me she had fainted in the vitamin shop. I couldn't see her because I was in the wrong shop it was a couple of doors up. I hurried up to the shop where she was sitting on the ground in the aisle with some broken stock knocked off by her head on her descent to the floor. The concerned lady in the shop had rung for an ambulance which duly rolled up. The ambulance officer insisted on taking Susan to the hospital to be checked over. This is exactly what happened. After 3 hours we departed after she had been poked, prodded, monitored and vials of blood and urine extracted. Verdict unknown but nothing sinister detected. The hospital emergency was very efficient and mercifully quite empty.
To say that the episode put a dent in our day would be an understatement. We adjourned to the supermarket for supplies and to a sushi bar for lunch before returning to our concerned hosts house. We undertook our helpx tasks Susan inside polishing furniture and cooking tea and me outside helping Dan put a border around a garden bed and shovelling a cubic metre of small river stones to cover the bare dirt. It was pretty warm outside and the sweat was flowing.
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| Waiting in the cubicle. |
The plan tomorrow is to start work at 7 since we need to pull up and relay pavers on the northern side of the house where the sun beats down.
Susan says she is fine so we shall trust her judgement.
Hopefully less excitement tomorrow!
night folks
Simon
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