{"id":4201,"date":"2017-08-30T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:57:24","slug":"what-goes-around-comes-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/what-goes-around-comes-around\/","title":{"rendered":"What Goes Around, Comes Around"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helping another makes the world go ’round<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been said many times. Help others when you can. It\u2019s a chessed. It\u2019s the right thing to do. And, in addition, you never know when you may be on the other side of the fence. Batya is proof of this. About fifteen years ago, her daughter\u2019s kidney issues that she had suffered with since the age of twelve reached a new low and only a kidney transplant could save her. Batya and her son were both good matches<\/strong> but Batya insisted that she be the one to donate. Her son has his whole life ahead of him. Should anything go wrong, she felt she could never forgive herself. Shortly after the transplant<\/strong>, her daughter gave birth to the first of two adorable grandchildren for Batya to cuddle and spoil. Imagine, a few days of discomfort and Batya earned grandchildren, great-grandchildren\u2026eternity.<\/p>\n

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Matching DNA for a successful transplant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All was wonderful in her world until fifteen years later when Batya found herself on the other side of the fence. She wasn\u2019t feeling well. A diagnosis was not long in coming. MDS: a life-threatening disease. . Her health condition deteriorated and blood transfusions were needed. The doctors asserted that her only chance to survive was a stem cell donation<\/strong>. Now it was she that needed another person with the same DNA<\/strong> to come forward to save her life. Ezer Mizion, the largest Jewish registry<\/strong> in the world, was contacted and Batya waited by the phone.\u00a0 Would it ring? Would a donor be found?<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t have too long to wait. Afik Zack, an intern in the Justice Department, was found, from over 850,000 on the Ezer Mizion database, to be a hundred percent match<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Mutual responsibility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAt first, I didn\u2019t understand what exactly I was supposed to undergo, and I was a little nervous. But then I learned that the donation is a simple procedure<\/a>, and I agreed to go ahead with it,\u201d says Zack. \u201cAfter all, life is a circle. \u00a0It could be me that needed someone else to save my life. I would certainly want that person to say yes. It\u2019s hard to describe the feeling I had when I realized that I\u2019d done it. I\u2019d done what other people only dream about. I had saved a life!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

So far, 2,463 lifesaving transplants have taken place, thanks to the Ezer Mizion Registry. Some are from Israel. Others are from the US, Canada, South America, Europe, South Africa, Australia\u2026wherever there are Jews.\u00a0 \u201cIt is a great privilege for us to be partners in saving human lives,\u201d said Dr. Bracha Zisser, director of the Registry. \u201cThe story of Batya and Afik is a moving, gripping tale of mutual responsibility, the fundamental value of Ezer Mizion.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been said many times. Help others when you can. It\u2019s a chessed. It\u2019s the right thing to do. And, […]<\/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":[196,763,898,897,349,892,899,896,11],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bone-marrow-registry","tag-dna","tag-dna-match","tag-helping-another","tag-jewish-registry","tag-match","tag-matches","tag-mutual-responsibility","tag-stem-cell-donation","tag-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","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=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}