{"id":3686,"date":"2016-09-21T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:42:47","slug":"linked-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/linked-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Ocean to Save a Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cell-phone\"<\/a>A sweet little boy in Ramat Hagolan at play. Fun. Laughter. Shouts of childish joy. Then\u2026 an unearthly scream! Ambulance! Siren! A race to the ER with a finger severed from his little hand.<\/p>\n

Staff got to work immediately while his parents paced outside in the waiting room, praying that their son would not have to grow up handicapped.<\/p>\n

The men in green emerged from the OR with tentative smiles. The emergency surgery was completed successfully but a device was still needed to finish the job. And the device? It was not available in Israel. The finger couldn\u2019t wait for it to be to be ordered through regular channels. Would he always have a remembrance of his accident? Would a disabled hand color the rest of his life?<\/p>\n

Suggestions were made. Suggestions were rejected. Until a staff member mentioned Ezer Mizion. \u201cThey\u2019re involved in so many areas. Maybe they\u2019ll have an idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was right. Amid the many divisions for special children, the elderly, the mentally challenged, the disabled and the cancer patient was a division called Linked to Life, a What\u2019s App program.\u00a0 The query appeared on countless screens and, in moments, an answer was received by a volunteer in New York: My friend is going to Israel now. He can take it.<\/em>\u00a0 The precious device crossed the ocean and landed in Israel. Now how to get it to the doctors in Ramat Hagolan? The Linked to Life screens buzzed again and Yossie Kleich of Bnei Brak responded: I\u2019m going to Herziliya<\/em>. And so the device continued on its route via Ezer Mizion\u2019s Linked to Life train. Like the children\u2019s game of \u2018Pass the Ball Around\u2019, Yossie gave it to Meir Wallis who was on his way a bit further north who passed it to Yehuda Adler who just\u2019 happened\u2019 to be going even further, who passed it to Pinchas Sterling who had an appointment a bit north who passed it to Yokne\u2019am who, miracle of miracles, was on his way to Ramot Hagolan. And so the little device was removed from the Linked to Life chessed train and delivered to the ecstatic surgical staff.\u00a0 Mission accomplished. The child will regain full use of his hand.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the way it is when we are Linked to Life\u2026<\/p>\n

As a Jew, you are never alone. Ezer Mizion\u2019s Linked to Life connects us all. A worldwide web of chessed. Want to join? SMS: 011 972 52 580 8936<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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