Gosh, I guess I never really noticed that the NY Times was extremely biased against Israel. I didn’t really read the news every day before coming to Israel. Now I read it just about every hour. Really, that’s about all that’s changed in my life since the war started. I was afraid to get on… Continue reading We should boycott the New York Times
Pots? The converts won’t use the same pots or utensils that I do. Hebrew? Got Hebrew 10 minutes a day! Doing Language skills classes but learning Hebrew via the Chumash is really strange. I think we’re going over grammar soon. Converting? Rabbi says we should talk when I get back but the outlook is good… Continue reading Mucho Problemos
So, far I’ve managed to burn some CDs full of Jewish shuirim or what I like to call “stuff to learn.” One shiur (sp?) is all about the Big Bang Theory and the Torah and how it all works out. In theory, I understand what I just heard for 50 minutes enough to give a… Continue reading Second Sunday in Jerusalem
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
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
Greetings from my apartment where I am because I am in too much pain to go to school. About to get off the computer to do some carpal tunnel physical therapy, call a chiropractor, a hand doctor and anyone else who might be able to offer some help with my ailments. My jaw dysfunction (which… Continue reading Stress Level High
It is only January but I may or may not have used 7 of my sick days already. We only get ten. My face hurts. On Valium and other meds and still it hurts. The dentist is too expensive. Turns out he’s out of network and I got all confused. Need to find new dentist.… Continue reading Pain
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