{"id":5609,"date":"2020-09-23T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2020-09-23T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:27:51","slug":"mk-rabbi-moshe-gafni-ezer-mizion-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/mk-rabbi-moshe-gafni-ezer-mizion-saved-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni: Ezer Mizion Saved My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK-Moshe-Gafni.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5611\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni opened the Knesset meeting this morning with words of thanks to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d) for His many kindnesses and pronounced the <em>berachah (blessing)  <\/em>of \u201c<em>Hagomel<\/em>\u201d \u2014\u201cWho does good to the undeserving and Who has rendered every kindness to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MK Gafni related: \u201cI didn\u2019t realize what it was all about. It was Shabbos (Sabbath). Suddenly I felt that I couldn\u2019t walk and before I knew it,  I had fallen. I wanted to go down to Minchah (Afternoon Services)  so my children wouldn\u2019t worry about me. I didn\u2019t know what was wrong with me. It&#8217;s probably nothing, i thought to myself, but I did need to take care of the gash near my eye before Mincha so I went to Ezer Mizion\u2019s Emergency First Aid Station. There were two doctors there, Arabs, it happened, friends of mine. I told them that I had fallen and I asked them to close and bandage the wound I\u2019d gotten around my eye from the fall. Even though all I had asked them to do was to take care of my wound, they insisted on doing an EKG. EKG for a wound??? I told them that all I came for was a simple bandaging. But they did an EKG and immediately sent me to the nearby Maayanei Hayeshua Hospital Emergency Room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pr-MK-Gafni.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Zachalka was there, a cousin of the former MK. We\u2019re old friends but he just looked at me seriously. And he didn\u2019t make any jokes. I asked him: \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d He says to me, \u201cIs this your EKG test?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d I answered, \u201cIt\u2019s mine. I just came with it from Ezer Mizion.\u201d He immediately called another doctor and brought him in together with his team. They did this. They did that. And then like the voice of a nightmare,  Dr. Zachalka tells me, \u201cYou\u2019re having an angioplasty right now. You\u2019re in the middle of a heart attack.\u201d He couldn\u2019t understand how I was speaking and laughing. It was a Divine miracle. Had I not fallen, i never would have gone to Ezer Mizion.   I would not have known that I was having a heart attack. I didn\u2019t even know that I had a heart\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knesset colleagues interjected: \u201cIt was your good fortune is that you fell and got hurt. Otherwise you wouldn\u2019t have gotten to the hospital\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey  called in Professor Granat, head of Cardiology at Maayanei Hayeshua. He immediately put in a stent and that saved my life. That is the story. B<em>aruch Hashem<\/em> (thank G-d), they took very good care of me. I have the highest praise for the doctors in all the places that took care of me; they were exceptional. My children, especially my youngest son, were with me for the duration of my hospitalization and recovery at home, and in addition, there wasn\u2019t a single Knesset worker or MK who didn\u2019t inquire as to how I was doing. 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