NEWSFLASH .

Saturday 13th March PM 2010.

This afternoon we have had a little excitement in our very quiet life hear at the villa in Tarifa; Brenda has been in hospital! She was outside on the balcony grooming Boo when the brush caught in his matted coat and he yelped and at the same time turned his head and caught Brenda on the arm, she cried out and I ran out to see blood everywhere, we wrapped it in a towel and at first I thought that it had cut a vein or artery! I called our Doctor who lives just up the road from the villa only to find out that he was skiing in the Sierra Nevada.He told me to take her to the main hospital in Algeciras, so we shot out in the Smart car, I stopped at the hotel at the top of our road and asked the manager where the hospital was as Algeciras is a very large major city; Luckily for us it is at this end of the city by the main port so with the help of a friendly taxi driver who pointed us in the right direction we went straight there.

The Hospital Comarcal Punta de Europa is a very large and modern hospital and was very busy as I dropped Brenda outside the Accident and Emergency entrance; she was seen by the reception straight away and as I arrived her number, with out waiting, came up on the screen. The first Doctor then handed us over to a nursing sister and we went into the emergency room where three more Doctors came and assessed the patient! It was not as bad as we thought and they explained what was going to happen; Brenda had to have a Tetinus injection and also an anti biotic jab in her rear! They then dressed and cleaned the wound and explained that they don’t put stitches in as they want the wound to be open in case of infection, so the dressing has to be changed and checked each day at the local medical centre down in Tarifa.Yet another doctor came and checked that everything was OK and gave us a prescription to pick up at a local chemists for some tablets to help with the pain.

The local chemists was not open as it should have been so we came back over the mountains to Tarifa and found that our regular chemists down in the old town was open,at the same time we made sure that we found the medical centre for our visits for the next seven days; she will have to have the booster jabs for the Tetinus in a months time and again in a year.

The total time that we were in the hospital was just over half an hour !!