so I was thinking that independence day would work personally as well as politically. Ezi has a letter from the doctor instructing the clinic to give him a vaccine. This would be the beginning of our freedom. But the clinic has demanded a letter from a contagious disease specialist – without even directing us to where we might find out where a person like this might be found.

And me, I’m going to a doctor this afternoon who will send me for tests and by the time something is diagnosed, I’ll be in Albania. But i’m pretty sure we’re talking kidneys, and I’m going to get a bigger dose of antibiotics than I got last year in the hospital. so if I disappear, you can send flowers to Internal medicine ward D in Ichilov. I’ll be lying in the hall, so maybe you should send them to the house when I get back.

And maybe not flowers. Maybe a nice shrubbery.