{"id":4118,"date":"2017-07-12T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2017-07-12T13:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:43:40","slug":"the-other-end-of-the-world-no-problem-when-it-comes-to-saving-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/the-other-end-of-the-world-no-problem-when-it-comes-to-saving-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other End of the World? No Problem When It Comes to Saving Lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No Jew Is Ever Alone When He is Linked to Life. Saving lives around the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019s at the other end of the world!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo problem,\u201d said the experienced Ezer Mizion staff member. \u201cJust watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the story. A woman with cancer<\/strong> was in need of a bone marrow transplant<\/a> <\/strong>to save her life. She needed it asap. Now! Not in a few months. Eldad had been identified by the Ezer Mizion Bone Marrow Registry<\/strong> as a genetic match<\/strong> but further testing was needed. Simple. A few tubes of blood and the test will be done. But what if the potential donor is happily vacationing in Cancun, Mexico? Do we wait till he returns? And take a chance on the patient\u2019s condition changing for the worse? Do we take a chance on another person\u2019s life?!<\/p>\n

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Test tubes on their way form Mexico to Israel. Saving lives via Linked to Life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Registry staff member contacted another Ezer Mizion division, Linked to Life which operates a What\u2019s App<\/strong> program around the globe. Lights flashed. Cell phones buzzed. A Linked to Life member responded that he is in Cancun and planning to travel for New York that day. The blood was drawn by a local lab and transported to NY by the L2L member. Now, Ronit , office manager for the CEO of El Al in New York and another Linked to Life volunteer, came on the scene. Ronit contacted Yoram, director of El Al representatives in the U.S. Yoram got the head of the station at Kennedy Airport, and security officer Tal involved in the operation. On Thursday, after receiving the test tubes from Mexico via the first L2L volunteer, El Al representatives in N.Y. traveled to Israel and handed over the precious test tubes to Ezer Mizion.<\/p>\n

The other side of the world? No problem when good-hearted Jews around the globe are linked together.<\/p>\n

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Saving lives on the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Based in Israel, L2L receives hundreds of calls daily. Come join us at the dispatch center. A call just came in. A grandmother, accompanied by her daughter, needs ride to the clinic.\u00a0 The volunteer that responded later contacted the Ezer Mizion office to say thank you \u201cThese are real mentschen. They didn\u2019t stop apologizing for taking my time. They were so grateful. .The grandmother is past the age of 90. At the time of the Holocaust, she was 17 years old. She had been through Auschwitz, work camps and Bergen-Belsen. She told me about her mother and little sister who were murdered in Auschwitz. \u2018When I close my eyes, I don\u2019t \u2018just remember\u2019 things; I literally see them happening.\u2019 This tiny lady didn\u2019t give up. She went on to establish a family which now consists of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and continues to give and give. \u201cI broke my arm recently and for a period, I couldn\u2019t bake cakes for my grandchildren\u2019s families. It made me sad but I\u2019m back \u2018in business\u2019 now. As they opened the car door at the clinic amid a flurry of humble thank-you\u2019s to me, I thanked Hashem for the zchus (merit) of having such a diamond in my car.<\/p>\n

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Saving lives 24 hours a day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another buzz at 1:30 AM. This one an emergency. A woman was unable to breathe and required immediate assistance. An ambulance had arrived and determined that hospital<\/strong> treatment was needed. But getting her there was impossible due to her wide girth. A large stretcher was needed. Ezer Mizion was contacted.\u00a0 Does anyone in your Linked to Life Group have one? In moments I was wide awake and dressed. Together with the paramedics, we lifted the patient onto my stretcher and transported her to the hospital<\/strong> in time to receive the treatment she needed.<\/p>\n

Alone? Never! No Jew is ever alone when his fellow Jews are Linked to Life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut he\u2019s at the other end of the world!\u201d \u201cNo problem,\u201d said the experienced Ezer Mizion staff member. \u201cJust watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,545],"tags":[741,756,4,197,762,14,771,347],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bone-marrow-registry","category-whats-app","tag-bone-marrow-registry","tag-bone-marrow-transplant","tag-cancer","tag-genetic","tag-genetic-match","tag-hospital","tag-saving-lives","tag-whats-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}