It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. After the second chemo treatment I had a “port-a-cath” put in which I call my in-flight refueling port. It’s under the skin on the chest and makes it easier to receive treatments because it is semi-permanently attached into a major vein. In this case it is meant to… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
No, I don’t plan to write a play-by-play message after every treatment, but the first one is “special.” For the first treatment and also this one coming up Tuesday I needed to spend forty-eight hours in the hospital, attached to an IV pole. What is there to write about? Mostly the surprise that I had… [Read more…]
January 23, 2011
I have cancer. Or did have it. Or might have it. Or something in there. They found a tumor in my colon, they took it out and now I have to go through chemotherapy. I won’t bore you with the statistics, because I’m confused about them myself. There’s a percentage to five years, add so… [Read more…]
February 24, 2009
I’m getting old. Or maybe I’m already old. I’m not sure. But besides having some of the physical ailments of the old, I seem to have found my way to a syndrome which is normally encountered by people who are slightly younger and much richer than I am. I’ve been suffering through a “funk” the… [Read more…]
November 20, 2008
Okay, so it’s been a while since I wrote on this blog. First a personal update. My ability to do computer work is slowly but surely going downhill. My lovely wife says that it’s just old age, but I know it was given a large bump by that stroke I had. Anyway, I’m trying to… [Read more…]
June 29, 2007
There was a comedy skit a while back on the television program Saturday Night Live in which a news commentator would say, “If it’s not this, it’s that. If it’s not that, it’s another thing.” Or something like that. Anyway, it is summer here in the Holy Land, and as happens each year when it… [Read more…]
February 8, 2007
So I haven’t written on this blog in a while. But there’s a good reason. I’m finally working! It took me a year and a half to find a job, and then only with the help of Nefesh b’Nefesh. But I’m not only working full time, but in the one-and-only field that I’ve ever actually… [Read more…]
September 8, 2006
A few months ago we experienced our first dust storm since making aliyah. We’d heard of dust storms, but only in the desert, like in Iraq. But guess what? We were in Yerushalayim [Jerusalem], and although we don’t think about it as such, it is actually smack dab in the middle of a desert. We… [Read more…]
September 8, 2006
It’s Yom Rishon. That’s Hebrew for “first day.” In English-speaking countries it’s called “Sunday,” or by those who know about pagan origin of these things, the “Day of the Sun.” Here in Israel the “first day” means the “first day.” Yom Rishon is a work day. Most things are closed on the sixth day (“Friday”)… [Read more…]
March 7, 2011
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