{"id":5703,"date":"2020-12-23T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2020-12-23T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:16:11","slug":"corona-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/corona-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Corona Alumni Volunteering at Corona Ward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Avichayil is a science teacher but her real expertise lies in math. Avichayil knows \u2013 really knows \u2013 that subtraction is the best way to add. She lives quite far from Hadassah hospital and her twice weekly traveling to volunteer in the corona ward subtracts many hours from her schedule but adds so much to her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cI live alone. All of my children live out of town. The volunteering does a lot of good for the person who does it. It fills you; it\u2019s so important to give of yourself to others. There is no lack of whom to give to nowadays. My children also volunteer, to the extent that they can, and my parents, too, used to volunteer in the past. They taught me all my life to look for how I can make the day brighter for someone else. That\u2019s what I was taught and that is how I train my children and my students, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avichayil was one of the first corona patients. When she was well, she spotted an Ezer Mizion ad looking for volunteers in the corona ward. .She has been volunteering devotedly over the past few months, coming to every Corona ward or room where help is needed, even on Shabbos and Yom Tov (Sabbath and Holidays): \u201cSuddenly, I\u2019m on the side of the caregiver and it\u2019s amazing! After all, I understand what the patients are going through. I know the feeling when family is not always present nearby and I\u2019m familiar with the loneliness. I have experience: I, too, had the virus. She is now able to say to her patients, \u201c I was here in this very ward.\u201d It gives them hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the 50 Ezer Mizion volunteers in the ward, Avichayil dons the hot and clumsy \u2018spacesuit\u2019 twice a week. The ‘corona alumni’ volunteers have become a vital part of the hospital community\u00a0 Due to the tremendous overload weighing on the caregiving staff, help was needed to provide an adequate human response, a listening ear, and aid in things like serving a cup of coffee or a drink of water, helping patients eat, and other simple everyday actions. She and the other former corona patients become the listening ear for the patient suffering from loneliness. \u201cIt means so much to them,\u2019 she says\u2019 for someone to be there to give them a sip of coffee, to recharge a phone so they can talk to a family member. We\u2019re the liaison between the patient and family. A message from a daughter will light up a wan, discouraged face. . \u00a0\u201cI am part of a wonderful project. We fill the vacuum with real love. The patients become part of our own families and we become part of theirs!\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avichayil is a science teacher but her real expertise lies in math. Avichayil knows \u2013 really knows \u2013 that subtraction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1350],"tags":[1450,1451,1342,1358],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-corona-alumni","tag-corona-volunteers","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","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=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}