We gave them $100. They made someone’s day. 9 stories
I haven’t spent time with my only sister in over a year. With COVID-19 still raging, the risk of her transferring the virus to her chronically ill husband is too great.
He fell ill ten years ago, when she was only 31 years old. This past decade has been one test after another. My sister has moved from state to state, from Maryland to New Jersey, all to ensure his comfort and wellbeing. He had a transplant, and then an explant, hopes were raised, then dashed. And through it all my sister remained the same positive, resilient, incredible eishes chayil she always has been.
One thing, though, did get her down. Her son came home from yeshivah one day, when they were still living out of town, and said, almost in passing, “You know, Mommy, this house isn’t homey.”
With all the constant moving and packing, hospitalizations and bikur cholim houses, my sister had little time or resources to put into decorating her home. But his comment stung, and she shared it with me.
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