The most positive negative thing I have ever experienced.

October 13th
Yesterday during our merienda date, we had coffee and juice and merialunas(croissants), Sofia's eye started bothering her. There was a heavy fan blowing on us so she thought that I was drying out her eye. Fast forward to after her birthday dinner her eye was still bothering her. She gestured me to follow her, I did and we were off to the hospital. We took a taxi to maybe 3 minutes down the road and pulled up on a semi dark building. Sofia had told me that her friend who is an eye doctor was working the night shift and she had texted her and her friend was waiting for us. The lobby of the old building was empty besides one man sleeping on the chairs. We moved forward to the next room. Both were lit in a dull blue glow that felt abandoned or out of a sad movie.  Front help desk area was dark and the walls were old brick and covered in old bronze plaques. Then Sofia's eye doctor friend comes out from the door to our left and welcomes us both with a hug and kiss. We go back into the room and she explains to me that this hospital is only for the eyes and that we were in the emergency room which is not crowded at night but is in the morning. She gets right to work helping Sofia with her eye. She uses a numbing eye drop on her eye and starts looking and sees a tiny foreign body in her cornea. She lets me look into the the microscope where and tells me to look. Honestly I don't know if I saw the foreign body or not but her eye looked so cool through the light. It was like looking into a honey nut cheerios commercial. Her brown eye glowing like a pool of honey. It was awesome how informal that the whole process was and not to mention hasty. A trip like this to the eye doctor at 11:30 at night I would imagine would never happen In the US. The only place that would be open would be the actual emergency room and the trip would be far from fast and I would have never been explained details and allowed to look through the lens. Sofia's friend used a q-tip and and swabbed the foreign body out of her eye. All together I felt bad that Sofia had to spend the final hours of her birthday at the hospital but I thought it was really cool that I got to see some of the Argentinian health care experience in such a unique positive light. Besides the actual lighting of the building.