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The Midnight Call - R' David Ashear (Prayer) STORY

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Rabbi David Ashear

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he had had salah coming to his home to give oxygen to him or every other day and then it got to a point where he couldn't stay home anymore and he had to go to the hospital and he was actually rushed to the hospital he said it was a tuesday afternoon and um and he got they said his oxygen level was at 82. if it would go down two more you have to be on a respirator and he was there it was thursday now he said i'm there for two days he described the i'm there for two days he described the very difficult experience that he had now it's thursday his oxygen level is still at 82. he asked the nurse he said nurse when am i gonna get out of here and the nurse said to him in a nice way i don't know if he'll get out of here but if you do it's not gonna be for at least a week or two maybe more and at that moment he realized how what grave danger he was in and he was lying in his bed all alone thinking about life

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