A Kollel student whose condition of late took a sharp turn for the worse is alive today following a lung transplant.
The patient was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and during the last year, he was compelled to remain connected to oxygen all the time due to the deterioration in his condition. About a year ago, doctors explained that his only hope was a transplant.
About a week ago, due to a sharp decline in his condition, doctors at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital decided to put him in a medically induced coma, connected to a mechanical respirator.
Last week, an Arab male died of a stroke in Haifa’s Carmel Hospital. National transplant officials made the connection and the recipient was transported to Petach Tikvah’s Beilinson Hospital where the transplant was performed.
The recipient is reported to be doing well. Three other organs from the donor’s body were also given to people waiting for a donor.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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I hope his entire family joined the list of organ donors in Eretz Yisrael. It is very important that we do not just take from others but that we give back as well.
boruch Hashem for miracles. refuah shelaima.
May his Toira be a zchus for him to have a complete rfuah bkarov
Whats a Kollelnik?
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Kollelnik
Chabednik
Litvik
Kooknik
Frumnik are they all first cousins?
Add chutznik to that list.
I’m guessing the suffix “nik” is originally Yiddish, though I’ve only heard it used by yerushalmi anglos.
The yungerman should have a Refua Shleima Bikorov bisoich shar cholei yisroel!
Boruch Hashem, he should have a refuah sheleima. I a wondering. As the man is in koilel, he is I guess married. Who is his wife? The reason I ask is because I konow a few jungsters with that illness and it is soooo difficult to find a shidduch.
fitrst of all, doctors have a reputation of being too fast to “cut”
especially in cases like these. but in this case, we may not be “picky” considering the “donor”, whose purpose in life was to save this kollel”nik”
while on the subject, a friend of a friend of mine’s wife died recently from cistic fibrosis, in her later ’40s. but she was confined in bed for a few years, etc.
unfortunately, the prognosis for such patients (even with such surgery) isnt too good. however, of course, chayei sh’ah issues are here, so i leave this to the proper family posek.
and a refuah shelemah.
Don’t forget potato nik. MMMM.