Monday, April 30th

 
 

We get up and have breakfast at the Courtfield, a nearby pub (another Taylor Walker pub). 


By this point, Olivia has become very sick, is running a consistent fever, and is getting worse rather than better.  We go to a nearby walk-in medical clinic (Greg spotted it while making wrong turns trying to find the hotel on Sunday).  It's part of the National Health Service.  The clinic is pretty new, with a spacious and well-decorated waiting room.  The attendant warns us that there will be a bit of a wait, and that they will have to charge us the full amount since we're not part of the NHS.  We wait for fifteen minutes, and then see the doctor (not a nurse practitioner), who prescribes Amoxicillin.   The cost is £30, about $50.

  We go to the chemist across the street to fill the prescription, which costs another £8 (about $13).  Interestingly, the pharmacy does not have name-brand drugs that are ubiquitous to us: Tylenol, DayQuil and NightQuil, even Acetaminophen.  They do have Ibuprofen and Paracetamol, which is another generic name for Acetaminophen.  The whole experience costs about $60 and takes less than an hour.   Not too shabby.