This was our weekend to go north for David's appointment with his HIV doctor (on Sunday morning). We left as early as we could (around 8:15) on Friday morning in order to arrive in Nahariya plenty early in the afternoon.
I helped lead the prayers at EVS (Emet V'Shalom) on Friday evening. Afterwards, we enjoyed a light meal and lots of good conversation with our friends, Beth and Norm, with whom we stayed the 2 nights we were away from home.
On Shabbat, David listened quite a bit to his new book, and I watched the lectures for my brand new online class, "Write Like Mozart". It's going to be an interesting class, although I think I'm already fairly familiar with most of what will be covered. Still, I learned it all over 40 years ago, so a refresher is certainly in order. Besides, I'm sure some of the ways the professor will present some of the ideas and concepts will be a little different, and I'll benefit from that as well. All in all, I'm quite excited about this class.
We also took a little drive around the North, on Shabbat taking the Northern Road (at places right along the Lebanon border) over to the Hula Valley, and returning via highway 89. We stopped and ate a late lunch at our favorite Middle Eastern restaurant in the Druze town of Khurfeish. The owner there is always so friendly and happy to see us, and the food is inexpensive and delicious!
This morning (Sunday) we left Norm and Beth's house in Nahariya around 7:00 a.m. in order to get to David's appointment at Rambam in Haifa. We ate lunch at the Aroma at there before the appointment. We have decided to transfer David's HIV care to the clinic at Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva because it is so much nearer (and the nearest one to us). Today, we had to tell our dear friends in the Rambam clinic about this decision. Of course, there were all supportive and understood why we needed to do this, but they were also about as sad to see us leave as we were reluctant to do so. They have all been so supportive and wonderful to both of us since we first started going there after our arrival in Israel. What a great bunch of people they are! We will, indeed, miss them.
We them started our trip back home, stopping first in Netanya to drop off a small package that a good friend of ours here in Eilat (Moshe) needed to get to his father there. Then we continued our trip home, stopping only for food and drink and restroom facilities.
After we got home, I also went over to have the nurses check my finger (the one I saw decided that it no longer needs to be bandaged!) and to pick up some additional medicines at the pharmacy.
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