My Emergency Trip to the Airport
Since my mom passed away almost 4 years ago, my siblings and I have been making sure my Dad gets a call or 2 every day. Fridays at 7:30 AM EST is our turn.
So this Friday at 2:30 PM IT my daughter tried to Skype Saba. And, in the meantime, I opened my whatsapp to send a quick message to my learning partner, Ilana. Every day, in addition to some other things, we share a moment of hashgacha pratit, of seeing Hashem’s hand in our lives.
I usually don’t have to think too hard to come up with something, but yesterday I just sat there looking blankly at my phone. I couldn’t think of any recent Hashgacha Pratit at all.
And then my daughter called out, “Eema, Saba’s not answering.”
“That’s OK, just try again.”
And I went back to staring blankly at my chat with Ilana.
“Eema, I tried twice more, he’s still not answering.”
So I called my Dad’s home phone. He always answers that.
But he didn’t. And I tried again. And again
At 2:45 I decided I wouldn’t panic until 2:50.
But at 2:48 I couldn’t wait any longer, so I called my brother, and we decided to call my father’s emergency-call company.
A little while later my father’s neighbor called to tell my brother that my father was being taken away in an ambulance to the nearest emergency room.
Turns out my father had fallen out of bed at around 3 AM, and either he blacked out or was just too delirious and weak to pull himself up or reach his emergency buzzer.
And if I hadn’t called right then, who knows what would have happened?
Another strange twist to this story, at exactly the time my father fell out of his bed in Baltimore, in Israel my gym friend Sari told me her elderly mother had fallen from her bed the day before, and had been rushed to the hospital, but BH there had been a miracle, and her mother was fine.
So at the airport now, flying to the US tonight to be with my dad in the hospital. My dad’s doing OK, but he is very weak and needs to be in the hospital to figure out what happened.
Thank you HASHEM for revealing Yourself in my life. I know You’re always there behind the scenes making everything happen, but thank You for stepping out from behind the curtain this Friday to take a bow.
Please join me in praying for a speedy recovery for Matityahu Tuvia Ben Esther Faiga. 
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