“Oh don’t worry at all it’s just a gallbladder; nothing to get excited about.”
If one more person assures me that “it’s only a gallbladder” I’m going to scream! However it was only the gallbladder and before I could say “cholecystectomy” I found myself in a hospital bed awaiting the procedure.
During the three days I spent in the hospital on the “other side of the desk” — in the bed and not at the bedside — I learned about the “other side” of bikur cholim.
I present to you my observations of a patient’s perspective on the mitzvah of visiting the sick.
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