Hospitals, Aroma and Ahi Tuna!

The last 3 days have been pretty intense. We have been at the Icholov Hospital daily from 8am-6pm. Did you know that the sun sets in Tel Aviv by 5 pm so when we leave each day it's dark out. During the last 3 days Lex has endured heart and lung tests, dental exams, biopsys, bloodwork, transfusions, meetings with the medical team managing her and chemotherapy. Through it all she has kept her sunny personality and bright smile. She makes friends wherever she goes taking email addresses or phone numbers wanting to make everyone around her comfortable.

Today she got the piccline, this means that she will no longer be poked everytime they need to take blood it's also what will be used for the transplant next Wednesday, she was nervous to get the piccline which is funny considering all the other stuff she has to go through and it upsets her because it acts as a constant reminder of whats coming. There is some down time at the hospital when we're waiting for the next appointment so we've been hanging out at Aroma, we like it there not just for Americano Coffee but for the free WIFI, however, seeing all the patients hanging out there in their hospital pyjamas looking like escaped convicts was a bit of a shock.

In spite of all the medical stuff we have still managed to have a little fun, our apartment is in a nice location we've found some terrific local restaurants to eat in and typical Lex discovered the one restaurant that serves Ahi Tuna her favorite! The Diezengoff Mall is up the street and the beach is only 2 blocks away, every morning we wake up to beautiful sunshine and cloudless skies, Lex has a tiny balcony off her bedroom and she likes to eat her breakfast out there.

The line up of people flying in to be with us is growing daily, as of today there are about 10 family and friends flying in over the next 3 months to offer support, this amazes me especially Lex's friends and then I remember that this is Lex, of course they want to be with her!

We love being in Tel Aviv, living here like native Israelis, we've been grocery shopping and I had to ask which cereal had fiber in it because everything was in hebrew, they only have pink tuna, no ziplock bags and so much hummous - have you ever had hummous with pickles? I'm told it's pretty good! The people are warm so many offers of help, we've even been invited to a wedding in early January and all being well we will go.