Wellness Weekend: How to Walk With Angels

There are angels who never were people, and then there are angels that are people whom God has chosen to deliver a message or complete a task here on earth.

Rabbi Marc Gelman

In 2019, doctors and nurses in Amsterdam’s OLVH Hospital saved my life, and the hospital chapel inspired my recovery with soul-catching music when all I could do was barely sit upright in a wheelchair.

This Valentine’s Day, I walked four miles listening to that music by Tom Lowenthal and thanking all the angels that brought me back into life.

• The ER nurse who I heard say she was starting CPR as I was rolled into OLVG. My heart had stopped. I cannot have heard her. I guess angels have special powers to reach the dead.
• The radiology doc who knew how to reach and seal the abdominal artery rupture.
• The recovery room nurse who realized that my body was failing.
• The ICU doctors and nurses that refused to let me give up for six long weeks.
• The gastroenterology team on 7A who believed I would walk onto a plane six weeks later.
• The doctors and nurses at the University of Florida Shands Hospital who pronounced me recovered.
• The physical therapist who knew I would jog again.
• The nurse practitioner who taught me the pelvic floor exercises and gave me back my confidence

Say yes to life. Say yes to miracles.

Rabbi Marc Gelman