{"id":2746,"date":"2014-10-28T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:03:59","slug":"would-life-end-at-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/would-life-end-at-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Life End at Seven?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy leg hurts,\u201d complained Netanel while playing around with his sister. But his mother hardly paid attention. Her grocery list had to be finished before the store closed. The potatoes had to be peeled if they were to be ready for when her husband would be coming home and the phone was ringing. \u201cKids!\u201d she thought to herself as assured him it would feel better soon, meanwhile running to grab the phone. \"pr<\/a>
\nBut it didn\u2019t. It got worse.\u201d Could he have sprained it?\u201d she wondered weeks later when he was still complaining. \u201cI\u2019ll bring him to the doctor next week. Maybe he\u2019ll advise us to keep him off his skateboard. That would be a nightmare for him but we may have to do it.\u201d
\nUnfortunately, another nightmare was in store for 7-year-old Netanel\u2026 much worse than being off his skateboard.
\nThe doctor could find nothing wrong with him. But the pains continued. His grandmother decided to take him to Sheba Hospital. Prof. Chaim Kaplinsky would not give up until he had a diagnosis. And when he did,\u2026 we almost wished he hadn\u2019t.
\n\u201cWe were young,\u201d says his mother. Certain things were just not in our world\u2026like serious illness.\u201d
\nCancer was a word we didn\u2019t mention. We certainly didn\u2019t associate it with a fun-loving seven year old child. But there it was. Leukemia. A monster that arose and threatened to engulf us all in his grisly mouth.
\nFirst it was chemo. Then drugs. But the monster still had our child in his grip. A bone marrow transplant was recommended. \u201cDo it!\u201d we almost screamed. \u201cDo it quickly!\u201d The doctor calmed us and explained that a transplant was not a procedure that can be done asap. In order to be successful, a donor with the same genetic makeup had to be found. And that may take time.
\nTime? Time was our enemy. Our son\u2019s condition was worsening every day.
\nThe search began with family members. No match. Ezer Mizion, the largest Jewish registry in the world was contacted. No match.\"pr<\/a>
\nBut Ezer Mizion did not give up. They pasted his picture on billboards asking for people to come and register. And come they did. To save the life of a little boy. The lab worked feverishly. Each new registrant was tested, wasting not a moment. The family sat tensely by the phone. And then it rang.
\nThe room could not contain our joy! Ezer Mizion had found a match! Our son would live! Life would not end at seven. He would grow up. He\u2019d marry. We\u2019d become grandparents. The monster had been vanquished.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy leg hurts,\u201d complained Netanel while playing around with his sister. But his mother hardly paid attention. Her grocery list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[10,4,37,23,11],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bone-marrow-registry","tag-bone-marrow","tag-cancer","tag-leukemia","tag-registry","tag-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","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=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}