Choose Life

Our situation had the component of additional stress because at the same time, our father was hospitalized with a life-threatening health crisis.

There we were, three family members in the same hospital, each on a different floor. Our remaining sister worked in the hospital and our mother was torn between the loyalties to each individual family member; the challenge of yet another litmus test in our Holocaust survivors parents’ lives.

A powerful scene, if you can possibly imagine it.

We told no one about our surgery until the last possible moment. Even telling our other family members was difficult.