Hope you are well soon ironside - a vpn of some kind should sort out the hospital anti-gambling firewall. (some betting sites block vpns but racing post etc should be ok)
I will tether my tablet to my phone got 1.2 gb left left this month, just trying not to run over 🙃. But looks like I am going to get out Monday to get the antibiotics on a picc line for 6 weeks. So won't need the rest of the 1.2gb anyway.