{"id":3984,"date":"2017-04-19T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:18:07","slug":"hospital-rounds-via-whats-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/hospital-rounds-via-whats-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital ‘Rounds’ via What’s App"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Linked to Life: We’re all connected!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was trying. Friends and relatives were also helping. The situation was beyond hopeless and I was helpless to keep things together.\u00a0\u00a0 I had three children in three separate hospital<\/strong>s, located in various parts of the country. One was in a mental hospital<\/strong>, two in medical hospital<\/strong>s. Can you imagine the anguish, the sights I witnessed daily? The despair when I had to leave one to visit another. The tiny bewildered faces at the window at home watching Mommy leave\u2026again. The exhaustion- both physical and emotional. The frustration when twenty-four hours were far from enough in each day. The astronomical expenses incurred on top of less money coming in.<\/p>\n

A friend gave me a number to call. \u201cPerhaps these people would be able to get you a ride<\/strong> once in awhile,\u201d she suggested. I was skeptical. \u201cWhy would anyone outside of my immediate circle want to help?\u201d I wondered. But I was desperate and thought I would give it a try. Even one ride<\/strong> would be something. Well, that number enabled me to enter a world I never realized existed. A world where complete strangers really cared and gave up their time and energy to help. It was the number to Ezer Mizion\u2019s Linked to Life<\/strong>, a What\u2019s App<\/strong> program connecting people in Israel<\/strong> and even around the world.<\/p>\n

A friendly, sensitive operator answered and said she would pass on the message. I thought that would be the end of it and was surprised to be contacted almost immediately. It was a short Friday and I needed to visit all three children. \u201cPerhaps he could drive me to the first one,\u201d I timidly asked. Well, Yossie drove me to the first one, came back to pick me up and drive me to the second, returned to drive me to the third where I would be staying for Shabbos, delivered a car-full of delicious Shabbos food<\/strong> to my home, food that my family had not seen in weeks, plus Shabbos food<\/a><\/strong> for me at the hospital. Yossie and his family continued to help. It was only later that I found out that he had made a bris for his grandson during that period and his help was certainly needed at home. Yet he and his family rallied to help me, a person they had just met.<\/p>\n

More volunteers came after Shabbos- some to do homework with the kids, some to help with housework, some to take the kids out to buy much needed school supplies (with ice cream afterwards for a treat). The food continued to come daily, delivered by people who really understood. For rides, all I needed to do was dial the number and a driver would materialize at my doorstep, always a person whose caring could only be matched by that of the next one.<\/p>\n

Ezer Mizion was my family\u2019s savior. We never could have made it through that period without them.<\/p>\n

Linked to Life<\/strong>\u2026We\u2019re all connected!<\/p>\n

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