We both slept fairly well last night, and this morning I felt better except for quite a nasty cough which continues to this very moment. David, however, was VERY weak this morning, so much so that I had to use the wheelchair (which, thankfully, we own!) to get him to the doctor. He also kept asking me who was here although no one has been here in a long time. He was a bit out-of-touch in general, in fact.
The doctor examined David and couldn't hear anything in his lungs, so he ordered an x-ray to rule out pneumonia. For this, we had to go to the Maccabi facility in town (Maccabi is our קופת חולים kupat kholim, literally "sick fund" but actually better translated as HMO). Thank goodness again for the wheelchair and the fact that it fits nicely in the back of our tiny car without even having to put the back seat down! The x-ray showed some congestion in his right lung but not pneumonia. The doctor gave him a prescription for 10-day course of an antibiotic as a preventive measure. Later in the day, David felt somewhat better, but he's still very tired and still has a very bad cough.
I got a letter from the doctor approving the whole week off for me (Monday through Friday). I'll send a scanned copy of it to Berlitz (which requires such a letter for sick time).
We had another nice chat this evening with David's sister in Ohio.
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