So, I don’t know my way around and I’m scared to get into cabs. I don’t speak the primary language but mostly, I love it here. It’s hard to explain why. Today, during Shabbos, we walked to the Western Wall to have our third Shabbos meal. The food was awful but I had the strangest… Continue reading Shabbos 2 in Israel
The first couple of days I hyperventilated over grocery shopping. It looked like a supermarket but I couldn’t read anything. I can read PRINTED Hebrew but now Hebrew SCRIPT. I gasped at the difficulty to distinguish between milk, soy milk and finally, thankfully, discovered soy milk. Aha! I went into a place and ordered breakfast… Continue reading WEEK 1: Israel
Tomorrow I’m meeting with the director of the school and stocking up on all my medications. Spent Shabbos with a lovely YU family. Good food. Good conversation–some over my head. Most positive people to be with on Shabbos. I had lots of fun and I showed Igor a great side of Washington Heights, the YU… Continue reading 4 days til Israel
Wow! In six days, I will be in a foreign country. Aside from Canada and the Dominican Republic, I’ve been to no other foreign soil either. This will be the farthest I’ve ventured from my time zone. Meanwhile: Panicking about how I’m going to survive on disability but now EVERYONE at work knows my plans… Continue reading 6 Days til Israel
So, here I am, feeling a mentally better today if not physically better. I informed the principal that I was going on disability in September because there was no way, I could come back with this pain problem. (On a sidenote, the rheumatolgists has me on a new med that MAY cause stomach bleeding. Hmm.)… Continue reading Boy, you work fast…
I have officially been in pain for seven months straight with few days in-between where the pain was officially gone for a couple of hours. Meanwhile, I’m trying to get my things together before I leave for Israel. Laundry, medications, packing. I have a one-page paper to write and a five-page paper due by the… Continue reading In pain for seven months
Hello, guess what? I don’t have really bad carpal tunnel. It’s only mild. That’s the good news. Instead, I’m battling the forces of evil fibromyalgia and Dragon Speaking Software and doctors who know diddly squat about my pain. Oh, more good news, I can withstand more pain (physically and mentally) than I ever thought I… Continue reading I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack….
Today is the first day that I have been without pain from my carpal tunnel, my repetitive stress injury and my TMJ which for the last month has almost incapacitated me making it hard to type at all, nearly impossible to write and otherwise function normally. I have gone two days without the month of… Continue reading Home Sick
There are many things I am grateful for in my life. One of them is surviving. I say survivng because up until recently, I thought I had survived but I realized it’s not over yet. I don’t mean life, I just mean the countless complications that all stem from one event in my life that… Continue reading Surviving
Have an appointment with a chiropractor for Wednesday. Feeling a little better. About to drug myself to sleep. Meanwhile, have to call the accupuncturist and hand doctor tomorrow. Thank to my sister almost everything in my apartment is packed. NEED HELP FINDING A HOME FOR MY KITTEN DIANA. She’s adorable. One years old. Loves having… Continue reading Update
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 