I got up early enough this morning to get in a nice walk. Last night we set our clocks back, and I had deliberately gone to bed later to be ready for the new time.
I did the weekly grocery shopping this morning at Shufersal, spending less than 50 shekels.
I ate a simple lunch at home today.
Between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. today, a winter storm arrived here in Eilat with STRONG winds, and we got our first real rain of the season. There was even some lightning and thunder!
Around 5:00 p.m., I called my friend Me'ir, and it's a good thing I did. He had apparently gone out on his rooftop balcony when the wind came up to take a video of it, but he had slipped and fallen, and one of his glass patio tables had blown over and fallen on top of him and broken. When I called, he had been lying there for about 2 hours! Luckily, his phone was there with him (he had been using it to make the video), and so he was able to answer. It was also fortunate that his door was unlocked so that I could get in. The glass didn't break into sharp splinters, so there were also no cuts or blood.
I managed to help him up and into the apartment, but he was complaining of a lot of pain in his left leg and his head. We called the Maccabi nurses' hotline (and had to wait and wait), and they sent an ambulance out to take him to the hospital. I followed in my car.
At the ER, they did a CT scan and determined that he had suffered a concussion. They gave him pain medicine and sent him home with instructions to stay at home and rest for a week. I didn't get back to my place until about 11:30.
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