Israel 'trip of a lifetime - not quite as planned' Part II, the video

Dena visits KDHS’ sister school in Har Vagai and Laura, Daniel and Rob meet her afterward for what was meant to be a 10 day trekking adventure. Instead Daniel ends up hospitalized the day we arrive and we all see a different side of Israel from within the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, outside Jerusalem.

Update on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 5:53AM by Robert M Schertzer, MD, MEd, FRCSC

I have now updated this video to link to an HD (720) version. If playback not smooth after selecting 720 from choices in bottom right-hand side of the player, right click on the video after pausing it to select settings….then choose to increase your buffer size way beyond its default value of just 100Kb as this video is over 1Gb.

Israel 'trip of a lifetime' albeit not at all as planned, part I: Hadassah Hospital

This was certainly not the trip we had planned in the preceding months. That being said, we learned so much about life in Israel while our 10-day hiking trip covering the whole country has been spent entirely in Jerusalem, or more specifically, inside the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem just outside of Jerusalem. The morning after arriving, we had to take our 10-year-old son Daniel to the emergency room where by night’s end he had undergone an emergency bowel resection for a ruptured Meckel’s diverticulum. We learned so much more about people in Israel from this experience than we probably would have learned had we been able to pursue our hiking tour.

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