I missed the lesson yesterday due to a totally jammed back. Well, instead I got to speak German and got my first experience of the German health care system.

I woke up at 3.oo AM and couldn’t move. Quite scary, actually! Even though I have lived here for more than a year I haven’t been to a doctor yet. I didn’t have a Hausarzt. Not a good thing when you are seriously in pain and have no idea where to go…

I rememberd I have seen a sign of an Arzt center from about a block from away where I live. Got there, barely, but I got a doctor attending to me immediately as nurses saw how much pain I had.

Then things moved along quickly. I got a neck supporter, pain medicin and a note for an X-ray at another medical center in the same building. Fortunately everything was ok. No problems with the spine, just muscle problems.

My experience of the German health care system? It works! I have a private health insurance so maybe that helps, too. It seems that the doctors speak fluent English and do not find it uncomfortable. At the reception and with the nurses I used German though. Hurray!

Hopefully my back gets better fast and I can come to lessions next week. The coming weekend will be boring if I don’t get to go anywhere. Fortunately the Eurovision song contest final is on Saturday!