I slept quite well last night but woke up late with a rather bad sinus headache. Even the 800mg of ibuprofen I took hardly touched it. I finally took a daytime cold medicine, and it helped a little. Eventually, the headache went away, but the sinus problem continues.
This morning we went in to see the nurse because David's new psyche medicines don't seem to have been working as well as they should. The nurse, who speaks fluent English, talked to both of us for a bit and then for a while more with just David. She also was able to arrange an appointment for him with the psychiatrist this Friday (as opposed to the earliest I had been able to get: a week from tomorrow).
However, shortly after we had returned home, she called to tell us that she had sent an e-mail to the psychiatrist and that he had written back that David should go immediately to the ER! This surprised us both, and, in retrospect, I think we should have questioned her (and perhaps, indirectly through her, the doctor), but we proceeded to the ER. Unfortunately, we left without David's bag, which contains all his IDs, and the receptionist at the ER wasn't very happy about that. Nevertheless, they accepted him. I think I'm still supposed to go back there sometime with the IDs, but I'm not quite sure about that.
Of course, it was quite some time before we even talked to the triage nurse, and then it was more than 2 hours more before we talked to the doctor there. Basically, they didn't know anything to do there, and so the whole trip was pretty much a waste, not to mention that I had to cancel all 4 units of Berlitz lessons that were scheduled for today: 3:00-4:30 and 5:00-6:30. Oh well, that the way it goes -- c'est la vie -- מה לעשות!
When we finally left the hospital, we made a quick trip back home to get David's bag, which also contains his glucose meter, and headed to Buddha Burgers to eat a VERY late lunch. We did both enjoy that very much, though, so not all was lost, I guess.
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