Lazy day today, at home, listening music, having rest, preparing some lunch and looking the horrible hot outside the window: no way to go out with such weather, better to wait and have a nice evening then. And so it was: plan was to meet Mzika to give her some things and then go to pizzeria with some other friends. I had a nice walk in the crazy Vagzlis Moedani, the big market where you can find everything for very few lari, and I then met Mzika along Rustaveli, the main road in Tbilisi. After a little walk, I had to run to take the bus; and here is when troubles begun.

I always say that running is a bad habit, and I have to confirm once again: just couple of meters far from the bus’ door, I put my foot in a very bad position and I felt a pain as I never did before. I had two terrible minutes – or maybe it was just few endless seconds – where I couldn’t even see or hear well for the pain, feeling as I was fainting. I was anyway able to sit on the bus and to write an sms to Mzika to come to help me.

With her help and a taxi, we reached the nearest hospital, in Vake, and there I’ve seen things that you people wouldn’t believe: first of all, I had to walk along a stairway, with my friend’s help – funny, uh? – and once inside, the first thing that shocked me was the silence, the absence of any form of life; I knew hospitals here in Georgia were not in the best conditions, but it was just awful: finally we saw a nurse – neither young lady! – and I had a ride along the horror-film-hospital corridors over a sort of bed drove by Mzika, destination: x-ray room.

Going along those corridors looked really like an horror movie, one of those that Tarantino would love, but the x-ray room was even worse: just looking at the places you would feel better. Anyway, I got that x-ray scan and doctor told that everything was fine: some rest, some medicine and less walk and I would be soon be able to walk – no run anymore – again. Oh yes, Georgia is also this: I love this tiny little country!

X-Ray room in Vake's Hospital