Shabbat and Sunday, 24 and 25 December 2016

I got up Shabbat morning feeling better than Friday morning but still quite sick. Naturally, I took it very easy all day.

I talked with Joyce in Ohio in the afternoon, as usual.

In the mid-afternoon, my temperature had gone up to 38.8ºC (101.8ºF), so I decided to call the 24-hour Maccabi nurses. After talking to me for a bit to understand the situation, she agreed to send a doctor to my house (at a cost of 85 shekels to me).

When the doctor and his assistant arrived, he talked to me and checked me. My heart arrythmia was what worried him the most, even though I told him clearly that it had previously been identified, I had seen a cardiologist, and it was being treated. Still, he sent me to the hospital.

When I walked down there (1 km, downhill), they saw me fairly quickly, but the doctor thought it very strange that I had been sent there. Of course, they did do an EKG, but they released me and just told me to see my doctor the next day. I quickly used the Maccabi app on my iPhone to grab one of my doctor's 3 remaining slots.

The walk back up home seemed colder and much less pleasant that the walk down. However, I felt better when I arrived in my nice warm apartment. I did feel pretty tired, though, which is why I didn't write here yesterday and am including 2 days in today's post.

I walked a total on 2.1 kilometers on Shabbat.

I did go to bed early, and I slept well. I felt somewhat better this morning (Sunday). After an early breakfast, I took a bus down for my weekly blood draw at Maccabi (to check how my blood thinner is working). Later in the morning, I took a bus over to see my doctor, who was actually not at all pleased with the doctor who had sent me to the ER yesterday. He checked me carefully, and entered an over-the-counter note to the pharmacy for me to get some cough syrup. I took another bus back over to Maccabi (actually, MaccabiPharm) this time, picked up my cough syrup (which tastes quite awful but seems to be working somewhat, at least), and then took one more bus back home.

I took today's pic of the day from the kikar at the intersection of Sara Imeinu and Ester HaMalka. It's a view of Aqaba that shows what a lovely, sunny day we had here. It was slightly too warm to stay long in the sun, and slightly too cool in the shade:

The rest of the day, I just relaxed at home, talking several times with David in Tel Aviv. Of course, I had also talked to him several times yesterday, including even from the ER.

I walked a total of 3.2 kilometers today (Sunday).

P.S.: I forgot to actually ADD the pic of the day. I've done it now.