{"id":1609,"date":"2020-07-29T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2020-07-29T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:04:42","slug":"getting-care-in-wine-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Getting Care in Wine Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all go wine tasting for the sheer joy of it.\u00a0 Alas, there are some times that our pleasure is tempered by illness or other health-related problems.\u00a0 Now, we\u2019re not talking about major issues that simply make it impossible for you to continue visiting wineries, when only a hospital will suffice.\u00a0 But even in Wine Country, people get colds and allergies, or need to see a doctor of pharmacist for something minor.\u00a0 This has happened to us more than a few times, so we\u2019d like to share a few of our experiences, in hopes that our readers will benefit from them.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Farmacia Trovate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wine Country is full of growing things, and some of them make us sneeze and rub our eyes.\u00a0 In the United States we\u2019re never far from a CVS, a Walgreen or a Rite-Aid. (There\u2019s a very large CVS on Trancas Street in Napa where we always seem to wind up on our trips to Napa Valley.)\u00a0 Of course, we can find everything that we can at home, but these drug stores are especially important if we forget a prescription. (It\u2019s happened a few times).\u00a0 We\u2019ve had to call our physician for an emergency prescription, or have our credit card company do it for us.\u00a0 We have had some high expenses this way, because our insurance company wasn\u2019t amused about paying for the same meds twice in a week or so.<\/p>\n

Of course, there were special considerations when we\u2019re buying medicines in Wine Country.\u00a0 We had to be careful about pills that made us drowsy, because we were driving\u2026and tasting wine.\u00a0 The label on many medications warn not to do either of those things.<\/p>\n

We have to double down on those problems when we\u2019re tasting wine outside the US.\u00a0 Even in countries where English is the language spoken, they don\u2019t call over-the-counter medicines by the same name as we do.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had a headache in Australia and wanted something strong.\u00a0 We looked for Advil and remembered that it\u2019s properly called ibuprofen.\u00a0 We got dull looks when we asked for either of those names until a friendly pharmacist remembered that ibuprofen in Australia is called Nurofen.<\/p>\n

And where English isn\u2019t spoken it\u2019s even more difficult.\u00a0 We had a little nagging cough in Chianti.\u00a0 We had to figure out how to say \u201ccough drops\u201d in Italian.\u00a0 In this little village, there was no internet connectivity to look up the translation.\u00a0 \u201cCoffo\u201d didn\u2019t work. \u00a0\u00a0Finally, a little forced cough and pantomiming the drops got us a box.\u00a0 (It\u2019s \u201ctosse\u201d in Italian, by the way.)\u00a0 If there were any counterindications, there was no way we were going to know.\u00a0 By the way, if you\u2019re visiting France, the French word for cough is \u201ctoux\u201d and cough drop is \u201cpastille\u201d.<\/p>\n

If you ever need a doctor or a dentist on short notice, most hotels keep a list of nearby practitioners who can help out-of-towners.\u00a0 There are also emergency rooms, of course, but they\u2019re not going to help if, as happened to us, a \u00a0tooth filling came out.\u00a0 But the nice people at our hotel contacted a dentist.\u00a0 The next morning we were patched up and back on our way to sample the fines wines in that region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all go wine tasting for the sheer joy of it.\u00a0 Alas, there are some times that our pleasure is tempered by illness or other health-related problems.\u00a0 Now, we\u2019re not talking about major issues that simply make it impossible for you to continue visiting wineries, when only a hospital will suffice.\u00a0 But even in Wine … Continue reading Getting Care in Wine Country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}