Chaim from Kiryat Sefer relates: One morning I got up from my bed and discovered that I had never known how to have proper kavanah when saying the words “Who prepares the steps of man.” I had always gotten up and walked without any problems, and I had not appreciated the fact that walking was such a simple activity for me. But today I could not step down on the floor. Every light touch of my feet brought on an attack of piercing pain as though someone had lit a small bonfire on the floor.
I went to the doctor, who diagnosed me with an infection and gave me two creams to apply several times a day. Baruch Hashem, after several days of treatment the infection passed, and I returned to normal functioning, praised be the Creator.
Several weeks passed, during which I walked miles with healthy feet. One night, while I was resting after a busy day, I felt sudden piercing pain in the soles of my feet. I immediately understood what had caused it; the infection had returned.
I was happy that at least I knew what the problem was and what I needed to do, and all that was left was to make an appointment so my doctor could give me prescriptions for the same two creams once again.
I called the clinic and asked for an appointment with my regular doctor, but the receptionist told me he was not in and that he would return to work only in two days’ time.
It didn’t occur to me to ask for another doctor; I thought that this was all I could do – I would accept my suffering with love and wait patiently – or impatiently – until the doctor returned.
An hour later I got a call from the clinic. A doctor asked what I needed, and I told him that I had an infection and about the creams that my regular doctor had prescribed previously. He understood, prepared the prescriptions, and informed me that the prescriptions were waiting for me in the pharmacy.
I completed the call and wondered what was going on. I hadn’t scheduled a telephone appointment with another doctor. Why had he called me at the exact time I needed, asking how I was feeling?!
The timing was incredible; only Hashem could do this, for He wants to arrange for the healing even before the illness. Later, I learned that my daughter had made an appointment for herself, and for some reason it had been registered in the system as a phone appointment. The doctor called me for this appointment, and that’s how we got to talking as we did, and he prepared the prescriptions for me.
My daughter did not lose out at all, because when she arrived at the clinic they took her, and not only that, but the mere fact that she was in the clinic then was a big favor from Hashem, for she went in to the pharmacy there and purchased the creams for me.
Thank you, Hashem, for Your precise planning of these events. May we all be healthy!
