Being brave can make a person break. Being real gives us the strength to carry on
It was a regular Motzaei Shabbos. In the midst of cleaning the Shabbos mess, we got a phone call. We were suddenly informed that my husband needed to go into quarantine because he’d been exposed to a COVID-19 patient on Purim.
We stood there, so shocked we started laughing. We simply didn’t see it coming.
My husband had come down with flu-like symptoms over Shabbos, but I hadn’t thought anything of it. Magen David Adom would come test him within 72 hours; until then, we had to jump into action.
Finish cleaning up the house, pack the bedroom with everything essential, and then some. I took out all my belongings — from now on he was going to be a prisoner in his own room, for 14 days. And me? I took on the role of single mom.
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