This story happened right after my bar mitzva. I was playing on the ice and I slipped and hit my head right at the eyebrow. It was such a big opening that the skin was hanging over my eye so i couldn’t see. This was at about 12:00 on a Friday and Shabbos was at 5:15. I went to the ER and sat there for about 4 hours and 15 minutes when the nurse finally called me. they checked it out and started the numbing process which is supposed to take an hour. My father mentioned to the nurse (with my approval) that Sabbath was coming and we should skip the second step of the numbing process. The nurse understood and started asking me what gemora I was learning and then she told me she learned the same one at her school. (a local not so frum day school) It was kind of funny and she got us out of there by 5:00ish for the 20 minute drive home. Me and my father were expecting to have to pull over and walk but we made every light and there was no traffic and we made it home 5 minutes before Shabbos.
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