{"id":6750,"date":"2023-05-10T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2023-05-10T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:10:55","slug":"avrumy-and-roi-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/avrumy-and-roi-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Avrumy and Roi part three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recap: Ro’i tells of his experience in donating the stem cells to save Avrumy’s life and wrote a letter to Avrumy expressing is wishes that Avrumy soon be well. <\/em>I remember that letter as if it was today,\u201d says Avrumy. \u201cI felt a little bad that I didn\u2019t respond immediately, but I couldn\u2019t. I was experiencing side effects and I waited until I would recuperate. Only after some more time had passed, I felt that the moment had come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ro\u2019i relates that from time to time, he would send emails to Ezer Mizion, asking about Avrumy\u2019s condition. \u201cThey were careful to stick to medical ethics and answered only what met that criteria. They wrote to me that they could not elaborate, but baruch Hashem<\/em> (thank G-d) , the recipient is alive and the transplant was a success. Only at the end of three years did my dream materialize. Then they told me that the recipient was a young man of twenty and that now, when his condition is a lot better, we can communicate with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Avrumy: \u201cEzer Mizion connected us, but because of the Corona, there were flight restrictions and I couldn\u2019t come to Israel. At first we corresponded with emails. Each one talked about himself and I told Ro\u2019i how difficult this terrible disease is and how many hopes I pin on his act saving my life b\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em> (with G-d’s help). After that, we spoke on the phone, and at the next stage, we saw each other on a video call. It was an encounter I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was so worked up that I had the shivers,\u201d says Ro\u2019i. \u201cI told him that I feel that I\u2019m meeting my brother, but Avrumy told me that I\u2019m much more than his brother, because my blood flows in his blood and he is alive thanks to me, b\u2019chasdei Shamayim<\/em> (through heavenly kindness). Never in my life was I so emotional!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really felt that I\u2019d gotten more than a brother,\u201d says Avrumy. \u201cWith his act, Ro\u2019i saved my life. I was in a hospital bed in serious condition, and today I\u2019m alive, healthy, vibrant, going out to learn Torah and to teach in a yeshiva, and doing everything normally \u2013 all thanks to his donation. A bone marrow donation is a real miracle that Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d) created. It\u2019s amazing to know that with a simple donation like this, you can literally save a life. My life!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first face-to-face meeting between Avrumy and Ro\u2019i took place in Israel, between the second wave and third waves of Corona. Avrumy couldn\u2019t wait any longer and he came to Israel. Ro\u2019i was waiting for him at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll always remember how we met at Ben Gurion Airport. It was the most thrilling day in my life! The spark in Avrumy\u2019s eye \u2014to see him alive, breathing, smiling, and to know that it happened thanks to my simple bone marrow donation! It\u2019s inconceivable! To see a person with hair, with a smiling face and healthy eyes, after I\u2019d seen pictures of him from the period of his illness, to see the huge gap and know that he received new life \u2014 it\u2019s amazing. Remarkable to see how such a simple donation can change worlds and grant life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember the moment when I looked at the person opposite me,\u201d Avrumy describes, \u201cand I understood that his blood flows inside of me, and that without him, I prefer not to think what would be with me today\u2026 These are rare moments of inconceivable emotion. I saw my personal angel before my very eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Avrumy and Ro\u2019i have maintained a constant connection. They talk to each other almost every week. The families also remain in touch, and this life and good \u2014have expanded further.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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