{"id":6464,"date":"2022-08-17T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:35:42","slug":"900-heroines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/900-heroines\/","title":{"rendered":"900 Heroines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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900 home attendants enjoy a night out in appreciation of their hours and hours of giving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time for lunch and Bracha*, the home attendant, prepared a nice meal of tuna salad with sliced pickles just the way her patient, Chaya* likes it. The corn soup was in the green bowl, Chaya\u2019s favorite. \u201cCome, Chaya. I made you such a nice lunch. Chaya raced to the table and, in a fury, hurled the corn soup at Bracha and dumped the plate of tuna into the garbage.  In horror, Bracha watched as each slice of pickle she had so lovingly prepared flew across the kitchen. \u201cYou hate me! You\u2019re trying to poison me!\u201d Hurt? Probably. Sad? It was a beautiful lunch. Frustrated? Well, she is human\u2026 Angry? Of course not.  Bracha is an Ezer Mizion home attendant and has absorbed the caring, compassionate and understanding ambience of the organization. She knew it was the Alzheimers that was making Chaya act this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCome, Chaya,\u201d she crooned with her arms around her patient. \u201cDon\u2019t cry. You know I love you. Just sit down for a few minutes and I\u2019ll make you another lunch just the way you like it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith pickle slices?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOf course, because I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giving, day in and day out, to the elderly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not easy being a home attendant for an elderly Alzheimers patient. Every hour another crisis. No appreciation. Only anger and tantrums. Easy to take it personally. But Bracha comes every day bringing with her smiles and hugs, spending hours giving and giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there is Esther* who spends her days caring for Hindy* who insists on going shopping to buy a new dress for her daughter, Nechama\u2019s wedding. (Nechama is now a grandmother.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c I want a blue dress with rhinestones. We have to go now! The wedding is tomorrow and I don\u2019t have a dress yet! \u201c[i]<\/a> she wails as she tries to unhook the bar attached to her bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEsther races to the bed to be sure the bars are locked, all the while singing \u201cKol Sason v\u2019kol\u2026(a wedding song) Soon we\u2019ll go shopping. Soon. Soon. We\u2019ll buy you the prettiest dress in the store. And tomorrow you\u2019ll dance with Nechama.\u201d\u00a0 She takes hold of Hindy\u2019s arms and dances in place with her, \u201cKol chosson v\u2019kol\u2026(a wedding song) \u201d Keeping Hindy safe is part of her job but bringing joy to this frail octogenarian is the Ezer Mizion specialty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The holocaust survivor\u2019s nightmares. The blind woman\u2019s terrors. The impossible-to-fulfil demands of the senile. The home attendant smiles through all of it and tries her best to create sunshine in their lives Every day. All day. Always.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it any wonder that Ezer Mizion tries, in a small way, to give back and show appreciation to these 900 heroines who give their all? Each year a beautiful event is held where they are the celebrities for the night.. an incredible evening with  delicious food, entertainment and a popular singer\u2026 just for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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