Will be one xmas to remember, things started to go bad xmas eve ,Cath who had been cooking all day , started vomiting late afternoon , then hot and cold shivers , she took a couple of tablets but by 9.30 pm thought it would be wise to get a locum doctor to come and see her.
Noted the time that I rang when I was told there was a 3hr wait and that that were very busy, come midnight I rang again was told extremely busy and doctor was only two suburbs away .
3 am Cath said she was starting to feel better she was falling asleep off and on .
Doctor finally arrived at 3.30 am, he examined her , temp was just above normal so he told us it was a virus doing the rounds , gave her 2 tablets to settle the stomach and said she would be okay after a sleep'
Both of us crashed till 8.30 am then went into daughters house for breakfast and to open presents like we do each year , she was okay no problems , from there we had to go for lunch at daughter in laws who lives a few Kms away, it was there I started to feel ill , not bad just tired, so left there and came home hopefully to get a couple of hours sleep before we were to go to gran daughters for dinner , my two other daughters would also be there
Cath had all presents plus salads ready to go when I woke up, and I just could not find it in me to drive the 50 Kms there and possibly in the dark again back, so Cath phoned to say sorry and we stayed home, by this time I had the virus took a tablet the doc gave Cath and today all is well again
Have invited all to dinner here Saturday so pressies will have to wait till then.

The locum is an after hours doctor that comes to house as you probably guessed