being well to be ill

In France,you need to be well to be ill.You need to make your own appointments for everything and then get yourself there,whether it is a blood test,an x-ray,whatever.Or you can stay in hospital.there is no happy medium,unless you are prepared to pay someone to do these things for you.I have friends willing to help,so i am fortunate ,but I am reluctant to ask as A) I am stubborn and B) it requires a mail to make the request ,then hope that that person opens their mail that day and can reply back and hopefully say they are free to do it.I suppose i could text,but not everyone answers that either. So I tend to impose on my husband which is unfair of me and i shall have to try a little harder.Today then ,i have asked a friend to take me to the town hall as it looks like they may have my priority card which i have been waiting for (but no parking badge which are like gold dust),and then onto the optician`s.
I am waiting for her reply right now......