Trial by fire or "now entering the roundabout"

After four days of trying to find a transformer for my c-pap we found a guy in Lisboa who was a supplier, didn't require a prescription and would meet us in Lisbon.  Yeah!  Best nights sleep I have had in  a week So we spent the night with our host couple in their new apartment in Lisboa.  We were going to see a couple of sights before heading back to Olho ( pronounced ol - yow nasalized) to teach an English class that night.  However, we got word that a sister who had had a migraine had collapsed and was taken to the hospital.  So we skipped the sight seeing and rushed back.  Gales first time driving in Portugal. He did wonderfully well wih only one accidental detour (Love the GPS) When we arrived   3 1'2 hours later they had left the hospital and needed a ride home but the sister was too sick to leave alone so we took her to our apartment.  This was a public hospital that people don't seem to think much of and they told her she had epilepsy and gave her prescriptions for very strong drugs.  The mission Dr. told her not to take them ( after driving around the block for 30 minutes to try to find a parking place at the pharmacy.  At home she ate but a little, felt nausous.  We tried to help her as best we could but she just felt awful.  We were all exhausted so we started to go to bed. We arranged the sisters with a fan in their room and they were just about settled when the companion, Sister Mancuso, called us and Sister Cordoso was having a full blown seizure on the bed.  Afterwards she was only semi-conscious and it took us about half an hour to get her alert enough to be able to drag her to her feet to lead her to the car to take her to the private hospital.  As I was holding her head as Gale checked her in she seemed to be having small seizures.  It took Gale  nearly 2 hours to get a guaramtee of payment from the insurance company which is required her for any treatment. After 3 phone calls he finally got the lady on the other end to get the email of the hospital correct.  They kept Sister Cordoso overnight but wouldn't let her companion stay unless she had a private room and the church paid for her to be here as if she was a patient so she came home with us and spent the night.  We got home about 2am and had to take another sister to the hospital for an appointment   at 8:45 and then go get Sister Cordoso and take her home. We are now waiting at Update:  They kept Sister Cordoso for two more days.  It seems that she had previously had a tapeworm and they didn't treat her long enough and the eggs went to her brain and caused little cysts.  Every time one of these cysts would break it would cause her brain to swell and give her seizures.   So this time  they gave her medicine for a year and she is back working.