The news keeps announcing that yes, we have a little wave of corona now – nothing to worry about because the hospitals aren’t full. But for Ezi, who is still immune to vaccines, it’s like being a little pregnant. The virus is dangerous to him, and he can’t take the chance. And since I could bring the virus – to which I’m probably immune – home to him, I have to be very choosy about going out.

But I was going to go out tonight – to a literary evening of my friend who is launching a book. And then I started getting the same symptoms that hospitalized me last year – pain, fever, shivering. Fortunately, I have antibiotics the sub-doctor prescribed last winter when i complained online – that I didn’t take then. I have a feeling I can take care of this with home medication, but if i disappear from these pages for a few days, you’ll know where to find me – in the halls of ichilov.