Leo Rossi, husband (Time 1 hour)English is his second language and he speaks with a strong accent, but understands English well.My wife was fine until Tuesday morning when she woke up early, about 5 with pain in her abdomen that she did not have when she went to bed Monday. I think she took some medication Tylenol or something and tried to go back to sleep she was really in a lot of pain by the time I woke up at about 6:30. She asked Angelo to take her to the medical centre that we have been going to. This medical centre is new, and I am not sure how good they are, our own family doctor, who was able to talk to my wife in Italian moved across the city to join a bigger group of doctors about a year or a year and a half ago, and it was too far for my wife to go by bus, so she goes to the medical clinic to get her heart medication she doesn't really like going there much doesn't feel as comfortable as with our old doctor. They told her she had an inflammation or something and took some blood I think and gave her a prescription for some medicine. When I got home from work on Tuesday, she didn't look good and she was still in pain, so I called our son Tony he just finished his training as an ED doctor, and has started working in a big hospital in Toronto. Tony told my wife to take her temperature I think he said it was a bit high, so he said to keep taking the medicine and to go to the emergency department in the morning for more tests if she wasn't feeling better. My wife didn't sleep well that night, but I think she took more Tylenol and said she was feeling better in the morning, she didn't eat anything, but she was able to drink some juice. I didn't think she was feeling that much better, but she wouldn't let me take the day off to take her to the hospital and Angelo had classes. I told her to call our daughter Carmen, but she wouldn't do that either because she said she was working nights for the last three nights she is a nurse in the neonatal ICU and Sofia didn't want to bother her because Carmen would be too tired she kept saying she wasn't sick enough for the hospital. She couldn't take any of her medicine, because she said it made her sick to her stomach. Carmen came over to see her in the afternoon. That night, she didn't sleep at all and still couldn't take any of her medicine, I finally got her to promise to call our daughter to take her to the hospital on Thursday morning. After that, I don't know exactly what happened, because I was at work, but now she is really, really sick I don't understand how it got this bad.
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