True Tales from the Corners of Our World

The Background

A bochur came to my house for Shabbos.  At some point the conversation turned to stories, and he told me his mother had experienced a major miracle. Later on, his mother got in touch with me and shared her story in detail.

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ack in the summer of 2023, my youngest child, Chaya Dalya, who had baruch Hashem survived a bout with cancer, had just been through two surgeries. I myself had diabetes and hadn’t been feeling all that great. But as mothers will, I pushed my worries to the side and focused completely on what my daughter was going through.

I had been hoping that the two surgeries that Chaya Dalya had been through would be enough, and we were both very disappointed when we learned she would need to have another one. What made this especially devastating was the timing; the surgery meant she would miss camp. Chaya Dalya attended a camp for kids who were dealing with major medical issues, and it was an experience she looked forward to all year. My heart went out to her. She was so brave, so mature, so incredible — and now she was being denied the thing she had been so looking forward to.

But this was Hashem’s decision and we had to accept it.