I got up early this morning and got in a full walk.
I was scheduled to teach 3 units of Berlitz lessons today but only taught 2: 9:00-10:30.
Shortly after I finished teaching this morning, I got a call from the doctor at Bayit B'Lev in Omer telling me that they said sent David back to the Soroka Hospital due to kidney problems. Almost immediately I hopped in the car and set out for Be'er Sheva. When I got there, the ER said he had been sent to P'nimit Vav, the unit where he had been previously, so I walked over there (the opposite side of the campus from the ER). When I got there, he wasn't even there yet, but he arrived shortly thereafter.
I called Berlitz from the hospital and asked them to give my 1-unit lesson at 7:00 p.m. to another teacher so that I wouldn't have to rush home so early.
David was slightly more alert and understandable than he had been on Sunday, but not a lot. I was just relieved that he wasn't worse. However, after some examination of him, the head doctor told me that he had had a myocardial infarction, and I knew that that's fancy language for a heart attack! Obviously, it could have been much worse. Just after she told me, her phone rang, and she said it was the cardiology department returning her call for a consultation. I left and came back home, though, before I found out any more.
I arrived back in Eilat just after 8:30. On my drive on the bypass road, I saw more bonfires than I have seen in the rest of my whole life put together! It was really quite amazing. The reason, of course, is that it's Lag B'Omer (if you don't know what they means, it's best to look it up because the explanation is NOT simple!).
No comments:
Post a Comment