Or
Better To Know
Only Good Health

and I am deeply indebted to the staff
sleep. Add to that the need to have
recent emergency-institut-
of nurses and doctors. One of the
blood
drawn
several
times
(in
that
ed stay at a hospital made
things that helps me through any sit-
dim
light
I
could
have
sworn
that
I
me acutely aware of some
uation, however, is to find some
saw fangs) and the noise emanating
of the "funny" aspects of
humor in it. L'Chayim!
from the parties at the
health care.
nurses' station just outside
There is some deep-seat-
my door and chances to
ed need on the part of hos-
doze lessened.
pital staff to gather the juicy
The epitome of inter-
tidbits about a patient's
ruptions came when my IV
problem. It is, I believe, tied
by Martha jo Fleischmann
monitor went awry. If it
into the fact that as long as
detected "air" in the tube,
they can keep a person talk-
The date of a passionate eel
it went off with a four-beep
ing, they know the person is
Was known for galvanic appeal.
chime. This happened reg-
still alive.
Her most current urge
ularly that first night. It
From the moment I
Created a surge,
SY MAN ELLO
sounded like a close
entered the emergency room
And french fried
Editorial Assistant encounter of some kind.
door, I told my "story" a
the hapless stile .eel!*
Well, at least I was not
multitude of times. Some of
awakened to take sleeping pills as I
my interested listeners included: the
*Idiomatic - poor fool
have heard could be the case.
emergency room receptionist, the
Let me state now that the care and
emergency room admitting nurse,,
attention I received were first-rate
the ER treating nurse, the ER stu-
dent resident, the ER doctor on call,
the ER technical assistants. (I really
think that the lady who delivered my
, "meal" would have asked, but she
was pressed for time.) Then, of
course, when I was in a my room,
each of the nursing shifts had to be
"It can only be a shehechiaynu moment."
informed, as did my doctors when
— Glenn Liebowitz, dinner co-chair of the Metropolitan Detroit
they came to call.
Federation
ofReform Synagogues' Fund for Reform Judaism Lamed Vav
That "meal" I alluded to earlier
Award
dinner, held at Temple Emanu-El where he is president.
was good for a chuckle. I was
The
evening also debuted the newly renovated synagogue.
brought a bowl of noodle soup —
The
$1.5-million
project
included a new foyer, kitchen and nursery-school
but no spoon; a dry sandwich with
playground
as
well
as
improvements
throughout the 44-year-old building.
side of mayo — but no knife; and,
because there were to be spills with
"We don't have a question of who is a Jew but who is a rabbi."
me sitting on a hard gurney and at a
— Yehiel Leket, new world co-chairman of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael
45-degree angle — no napkin. What
(parent organization of the Jewish National Fund),
fun!
discussing
the pluralism issue in Israel while addressing
Once upstairs, I was introduced to
Detroiters
at
Wabeek Country Club in Bloomfield Hills.
the demands of serious care. I was
warned that my blood pressure had
"The Jewish side of me relates to him. I have an Aunt Rose and an Aunt Min-
to be monitored 'every two hours, so
nie
and all that. When he's ready for a dreadlocked black Jew, I'm there."
I'd be awakened. That was okay
— Singer Lenny Kravitz, whose ancestry is part Jewish and part
except that my two-hour schedule
African-American,
on his credentials for appearing in a Woody Allen film.
did not correspond to my room-
mate's two-hour schedule. Goodbye,

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