Homeless & Hospitalised

So clearly we are NOT going to make the ferry that hubby booked soooo many months ago. We don't know what day we will be discharged from the hospital...could be up to 8 days they say. So how do we keep our ticket alive? Do we have travel insurance....ummm rummmage rummage...doesn't look like it.
Do we have health insurance...quick call to our top of the range...top dollar insurance company....ummmm NO...stayed too long in France...fcukers!

Princess and I had food and shelter ...although a shortage of clothes (still in my skanky cleaning gear 2 days and, yes, one night later) ( had a little camp bed beside princess in the ER...had to keep my kit on..princess decided she wanted to sleep with me. Her bed was MUCH bigger but didn't reckon I'd get away with sleeping in it with her. So as Roz says...lots of squeezy.

Looks like Princess will be fine, so time to focus on the mundane things like personal hygiene and shelter for the other half of the family.

One of our friends living closest to the hospital offered hubby, sonny and the dog a bed...still nearly 200km from the hospital though...so lots of driving for hubby.
Friend's cat was traumatised by the present of hound.
Hound was totally discombobulated about the sudden change in scene and disappearance of Princess and I.
I was afraid sonny would be traumatised too as the first day...the day we had planned to leave the country, he found himself alone (with friends) and the rest of the family disappeared. But no he was happy as a clam...no abandonment issues what-so-ever.

So despite the ban on mobile phones...I had lots of business to do while sitting around waiting for Princess's Pancreas to pull itself together.

The ferry company, irishferries.com were simply fantastic and allowed us to rebook our tickets at a modest fee (€15) Only problem was the first slot for a dog was 10 days out!!!
So it was decided with much angst and gnashing of teeth that hubby would get the ferry to England ....drive across England and get another ferry 5 hours later to Ireland. Hubby and hound rarely get such bonding oppourtunities!

Meanwhile...back on the health insurance front...by a miracle I managed to locate Princess's European Health Insurance Card . Remember all our worldly treasured are packed tight in the back of the Zafira. Turns out this will pay 80% of our bills. THANK YOU!!! the Irish government and the EU!
Leaving 20% of €1200 per day to deal with.

Pondering this issue I remebered the insurance we bought for the ski season...Carte Neige The back of the card says family lesiure insurance valid til Oct 2009!! What is trampolining but a family leisure activity. I give them a ring and hey presto ....no problem.

I have to fax them the details...I write up a fax and ask the cleaners to check the grammer...causing much debate between them.

So travel sorted, payment sorted, pancreas sorting.