Headache

Police stopping youths

The Flag March is underway. I made sure I came home from work by 3pm to avoid street closures and possible attacks from the jewish marchers celebrating the conquest of East Jerusalem. Shop keepers were closing down and double locking their shops. Police at every street corner was stopping and searching all young arabs passing by. It's just all too bad. 

I saw from news that our Patriarch is now in Gaza for 4 days to visit and encourage the embattled christian community there. It's a good pastoral act of charity. The Patriarch saw the destroyed school buildings and the frightened children and people. 

Shops closing

I'm ok ... I can walk and talk now. Only I sometimes cannot finish a sentence or cannot find words or forget names. Hope this is not permanent. I still feel giddy ... probably because of the medicine to lower my blood pressure. And I have a soft headache. It's scary. It could have been alot more serious.

I have to stay calm, not to get my blood pressure up. That means not being under the hot summer sun, avoid hot drinks and food. Drinking cold drinks would be nice in summer. But to avoid the sun in summer .... that's not like summer. It's like being back to winter again. I want to enjoy summer ... but it'll have to have some changes.