The date is a pure guess, could have been a year or two later. It was a dry winter night, and Nina had a serious cough, that couldn't be tamed by any regular means that our house doctor knew of. To hospital, then - but the good old škodilak just decided to be in disorder. We didn't even know the number of the taxi, so we just went out on the street, with Nina wrapped in a blanket, and tried to hitchhike anyone, though the chances for it were slim at 1:00.
And succeeded. The gypsy band had just finished their gig and were returning, with instruments and everything in their old clunker of a Mercedes. They gladly took them and drove them to the hospital, where they stayed the night and returned by bus in the morning. The crisis was over by then, she was breathing regularly and the recuperation took just a few days.
15-X-2023 - 27-XI-2024