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I was delighted to see Gitty Gellis featured in your article about sonography as a field of employment.
Although I’ve been living in Yerushalayim for many years, baruch Hashem, I never had the pleasure of making her acquaintance until this past Erev Shavuos, when I found myself in her ultrasound room about an hour before Yom Tov.
As I’d been going about my last-minute Yom Tov preparations, I suddenly started having severe abdominal pain, and since I was at the beginning of a pregnancy, I was concerned that this was a medical emergency. I called my doctor to ask if I needed to go to the hospital — not something I relished doing, knowing that it would probably mean I’d get stuck there for all or much of Yom Tov — and she said, “Well, you certainly need an ultrasound. Maybe you can find a technician who’s willing to do a home ultrasound.”
I opened the Newcomer’s Guide to find someone who does home ultrasounds, and dialed Gitty’s number. In response to my apologies about calling at this crazy hour, she sounded totally unflustered, and told me to come right over. Calmly and patiently, she performed the scan, and reassured my husband and me that everything looked fine.
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