A Special Guest Blogger

Greetings!

Adam has a very funny anecdote that he wanted to share on his blog. Unfortunately, he is currently unable to post due to his army course. (As army courses have not yet learned to schedule time for adequate sleep, they have clearly not scheduled any time for blogging.) I have therefore posted the funny anecdote on my own blog under the title "Competition from Afar," and Adam encourages you all to read it there and have a good laugh along with him.

Michelle

Happy Green Day

Israel is by its nature a Jewish state. It is not a Catholic state. It is not an Irish state. For these reasons one would not expect Israel to celebrate St. Patrick's day. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I arrived at my base to find everyone wearing green.

Sleep Talking

Over the past two weeks my health situation hasn't improved much. I've started meeting with another doctor and I'm back on an array of medications - none of which are really making me feel 100% better. I want to move back to Remicade (the infusions that I was receiving in the States) but my doctors say that it might be a month or two before I can begin the treatment.

Yesterday, for whatever reason, I felt particularly miserable. So bad in fact, that received two days off from the army. Instead of suffering alone in my tiny army room, I traveled to Jerusalem so that Michelle could take care of me. I ate some toast while watching TV and then went to sleep in a real bed (Michelle was kind enough to sleep on the air mattress).

During the night a funny thing happened: Michelle woke up to find me talking in my sleep, something which I don't usually do. Even stranger, I was speaking in Hebrew. Weird.

Today I feel much better (as in my normal discomfort) and will be traveling back to my base shortly. Next week I start my course and will have even less contact with the outside world than usual. My apologies in advance for being able to blog even less frequently than usual.

When Being Me Sucks

Over the past few weeks I haven't been feeling too well. I have been trying to move back to my previous wonder-drug (Remicade) but my doctor hasn't been very helpful. Finally he relented and gave me a referral for a second opinion, which I have tomorrow. Hopefully this doctor will be less stupid. In the mean time, I'm popping my current drug (Pentasa - a weak anti-inflammatory) like it's a party drug. This is appropriate because right now my life is just one big party. Whoo-hoo.