WELLBEING → LIFELINES Issue 658 · May 3, 2017

A Hard Pill to Swallow

Why would I even think that the pill was Aharon’s? Aharon was totally normal and balanced, a serious ben Torah with sterling middos,

A    Hard    Pill    to    Swallow
Why would I even think that the pill was Aharon’s? Aharon was totally normal and balanced, a serious ben Torah with sterling middos

I was married for a year when I found a blue pill on the floor. My immediate reaction was: Oh this is how it happens in the stories in the books and magazines when she discovers that her husband is on pills.

A pit of dread formed in my stomach. What’s going to be? What should I say? What should I do?

“Aharon what’s this?” I asked my husband my heart pounding.

“Oh Naftali probably dropped it when he was here yesterday ” Aharon said casually. Naftali was his older single brother who suffered from a heart condition.

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