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<\/a>We were safe, B\u2019H. Not a scratch. But emotionally, I couldn\u2019t handle it anymore so I decided to visit family in Jerusalem just for a break. I traveled with my son by bus and that, believe it or not, is where he got quite a bit more than a scratch. The bus stopped short. He bumped his head and received a deep cut. So here I am, instead of relaxing at my relatives\u2019 home, still as tense as can be sitting for hours in the Emergency Room. I don\u2019t feel any older than my son. What I\u2019d like to do is have a good cry, just like him. I\u2019m trying to be the adult and hold things together but it\u2019s so hard. The final straw came when he asked for food. Of course, he is hungry. He\u2019d been away from home for hours.<\/p>\nPeople are so nice. I was sitting next to another mother whose thirteen year old daughter had tried to be helpful in slicing vegetables using a new, very sharp knife. She had wanted to save her mother some time but, to her chagrin, ended up costing her mother the whole morning as they waited in the Emergency Room to take care of a cut that was made by means of the knife slicing more than the vegetables. Even though she was probably worried about her daughter, she listened to my story. When my son began to cry that he is hungry, she knew just what to do. \u201cThere\u2019s probably one here. They usually have extra just for cases like this. They\u2019re angels, those people. Always looking to help out. I\u2019ll be right back.\u201d I didn\u2019t know what she was talking about but in moments I found out.<\/p>\n
I recognized the Ezer Mizion uniform as a smiling volunteer ran over to us with two hot, delicious meals. \u201cThat will tide you over for awhile,\u201d she said. \u201c But in case you\u2019re still here later, here are a couple of sandwiches.\u201d I looked at her in awe. The food meant so much more than nutrition, which we were both sorely in need of. It gave me a feeling of being taken care of. \u201cI hope your son is stitched up soon and able to go home but if you should need anything else- anything- please don\u2019t hesitate to ask.\u201d She was like a warm shower, washing away the cares of the past few weeks. \u201cLet\u2019s play a game while we eat,\u201d I said to my son as she disappeared around the corner. I felt in control again. I could handle things. My neighbor smiled at me. \u201cSee, I told you they were angels.\u201d<\/p>\n It was the time of Operation Protective Edge and I live in Ashdod. You know what that means. Not one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[7,283,281],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war","tag-israel","tag-protective-edge","tag-war-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"