Wednesday, May 7th Kiryat Shmoneh

Wednesday, May 7 Kiryat Shmoneh

Wake up call at 7:30 am from Beverly. Ouch.  Shayna’s been up all night…..let’s just say…. dehydrating in every way possible. She’s in no condition to join the group for a trip to Tzfat and…if you follow this…is in need of new clothes and new shoes. Poor thing. It was a rough night.

I hurried over to Kibbutz Gonen from Kfar Blum to find a very sick looking Shayna who now needed yet another clean set of clothes.  Ugh.

I got her to Kfar Blum, with only one stop in the bushes for her to clear her stomach out just one more time. If you know Shayna as constantly happy and smiling, this wasn’t her. With even the clothes she was wearing over from Kibbutz Gonen now out of service, she put on my gym clothes.

We surmised that she had some reaction to food or water. No fever. Started about 7 or 8 hours after she last ate.  Her body definitely wanted everything OUT.

After yet another shower, this time in my hotel room at Kfar Blum, she fell asleep for a few hours.  

In the middle of her sleep, I heard an airplane buzzing the kibbutz.  While this might be cause for alarm, given our locale, it turned out to be a crop duster.

When Shayna woke up, she could sustain a little food and water then more hours of sleep. We went back to Kibbutz Gonen so she could find new clean clothes and see how she’s feeling. When I respectfully turned around so she could change in private, I didn’t immediately realize that she just climbed into bed and slept even more hours.

By mid-afternoon, she was awake, better rested, and now clear of the food poisoning. An hour later, she felt good enough to want to rejoin the group for their tour of Tiberias and ride on the Lake Kinnerit “Disco Cruise.”

We’d been calling Marci all through the day and took this picture to convince her (and you) that Shayna was back to herself.  Yeah, Shayna.

She called about 9 pm, after the group returned from Tiberias, to let me know she was just fine now and had a great time.

As I started to pack, the intense heat of the last few days changed to a massive Spring thunder and lightening storm.  Here's a taste of it:

Tomorrow, I get some time to bring Shayna to my kibbutz (Hanita), located on the Lebanese border near Rosh Hanikra.

I’d like to say “off to bed” but I actually have an 11 pm video conference call-in to a meeting at Federation!

Lailah tov, sort of..