Oy, I am very teary today – reading everyone’s words. There certainly is a lot of talent here in the CR. I thank you all for your comments on my poem. I don’t what made me write it – the words just came to me and I wept as I typed. I really had never thought about just how lucky I am. Of course, I highly recommend being in a tertiary care teaching facilitie’s OR, if G-d forbid. one is going to have such a cardiac event. It is a long story, but essentially I had a surgeon who had himself convinced that he was Hashem. I told him that I needed surgery and he told me that he would let me know when it was needed. I was right and by the time I got into the OR, I was toxic from having large part of my intestine gangrenous. I was on life support for several days and then one day I woke up and said “what happened to me”? I did not see a white light or anything like that and I don’t remember anything from the day before this happened until about 10 days later. Now I live every day (although I didn’t appreciate this event for several years) being the best that I can and doing as many mitzvot as I possibly can. Finding my shul helped me find my spirituality and my love of all things Jewish. Thanks for listening and I wish all of you a peaceful and joyous Shabbat. Oops – I am crying all over again.
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