Hospital again

Seminarians at Purim festival

Last night Purim began. Children in costumes and disguise filled the New and Old Cities ... the atmosphere was very festive but more muted than last year. Later in the evening the adults came out in their costumes and the parties began. Groups reading the Book of Esther in public took place in every street corner while everyone was taking photos of everyone in costume. I took a very short walk in the Ben Yehuda Mall early in the evening ... and was accosted by 2 guys in masks. Found out they were our seminarians. And there were more seminarians from the other 3 seminaries coming to the Mall to see the festivities. Well they need a break ... right now most of them are stressed with writing their theses or term papers.

Cocktail of medicine
pumped into my arm

It wasn't a good day for me yesterday. I had been suffering a pressure on my chest and difficulty in breathing and dizziness. At times the pain was quite bad. I thought it was the onset of a heart attack. Still I worked through the morning ... at the Printing Press, at the Economato, with the lawyers, at the libraries then class at 2.30pm. From there I went to the M. Teresa's convent for adoration and bible class but I was so sick the sisters brought me to hospital immediately. After lots of tests and injections, the docs said it was my asthma that caused my heart to overwork for lack of oxygen ... which was causing my dizziness. It must be some infection in my lungs because the doc wants me to take 2 types of antibiotics as well as continuing my regime of prednisone for another 10 days. I dread that.

But I must say the nurse who did the injection was pretty good .... the first who actually inserted the catheter into my arm without much pain. But the concoction of medicines was huge. Today I hope to rest .... which is of course a dream. Staying by the beach in Jaffa would be a great opportunity to breath fresh clean sea air and recuperate but a journey there costs US$100 and same for the return journey. That's how expensive Israel is. I'll just keep living a dream.