This morning I am healed!! What social medicine cannot do, God can. Praise God! The relief of finally not being in pain is amazing.
Now that my main worry is over, we took stock of where we were. They will not test us for 7 days so we are stuck here. But Randy has a very strong feeling that we will go home on Monday.
Today was a very long day, and the TV hasn't been fixed. I remembered the Biblical story about the old woman who continued to nag the lawyer until he finally agreed to her, just to shut her up. I called the front desk every hour for five or six times until finally he said they were going to give us a different room. Randy went to check it out and it is a better room, so we will move there after breakfast. Which was terrible. Randy makes do with the luke-warm coffee but I cannot eat that roll and the juice tastes nasty.
After breakfast there was a knock on the door; someone came to take our daily temperature check. They were dressed, head to toe, in white hazmat suits complete with bee-keeper type head coverings.
The new room is cooler, which is really important. It has a working TV but the only English shows are news and occasionally a few old reruns on one channel. But it's cooler, so we will not rock the boat again.
The front desk guy had said to call and ask for anything we needed. So I asked for panty liners (after looking up the words in Italian). The desk guy said okay and a short while later there was a knock on the door and somebody delivered an open package with exactly two big Kotex napkins in it. Who needs just 2 kotex? I am almost out of my Oil of Olay facial cream but I don't dare ask for that because who knows what they would give me?
Giuseppe said he would help us get a test on Monday.
And then we learned that the US is dropping the test requirement Sunday at midnight!! Praise God!! Rejoice!! Start packing!!
We called Giuseppe again and he will arrange a ride to the airport as soon as we know the flight time. Randy called CIE and they will get us a flight asap!
Dinner was barely-warm cod and beans, and cold pasta with pesto sauce, along with the usual hard roll, water, salt, pepper, and olive oil seasoning. Nope. I had to pass on this.
At 1:30 am we got a call to confirm the flight. The guy apologized for calling at that hour but he thought we'd want to know asap, and he was right!
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