busy day

this is a back blip. But for quite a memorable day.
Up early to walk through my mothers misty garden, 
Awaiting the outcome of the Australian same-sex marriage postal poll (don't get me bloody started...) Came through as Yes, so cheers all round and plans for cracking a bottle. Started to feel tired and ill, and so spent all day asleep. Felt worse, and decided to return to Adelaide, passed out in the car on the freeway (wasn't driving!) and so was diverted to the nearest hospital ED. Arrived at 5:30, saw a doctor at 10pm, and left finally at 1:30am. Bacterial infection apparently. The nurse who put the saline drip in stuffed it and a lot of it ended up on the bed, like I'd wet it! The drug to settle my stomach caused me to writhe around on the bed in agony and gasp for breath. 
But hey, luckily this is Australia; shit concept postal surveys aside, for the most part the system worked, and even the cop and the crim in handcuffs in the waiting room would get their turn.