I want to thank everybody who is saying Tehillim for my daughter, please continue, we have already seen tremendous success”. So said Rabbi Avraham Sperling, the father of the girl engaged to be married who was seriously injured in a deadly traffic accident this week. Sperling also thanked Hashem and the hospital staff taking care of his daughter.
“The hospital staff worked so hard to save my daughter's severed arm, in the 10-hour operation they brought the best doctors from the entire region. This goes to show that this hospital is a place which does not cut corners and places the needs of the sick above their own personal prestige”.
“I want to thank the shuls, Yeshivot, seminaries, Kollels and all the places where Tehillim are being said for my daughter, and ask them to continue. We have already seen tremendous success, in that such a complicated operation is considered to be a success in the meantime, and we will need many more Tefillot in the next few months. I want to thank the public and above all I wish to thank Hashem. Three times a day we thank Him by saying “You are our G-d”, we have an anchor, Torah Mitzvot and the “public Tefillot”, I am not alone.
I know that the whole public is with me and this will certainly give us the strength to continue and will bring about a full recovery much faster”, said the father and announced the postponement of the wedding. “Sari will need a few months of recuperation, but G-d willing everything will be OK and we will see her dancing at her wedding”.
Dr. Erez Avishar, Head of the department for hand surgery at the Asaf HaRofeh hospital, who participated in Sarah's operation, said that her right hand had been severed but the team of doctors succeeded in reattaching it. “Sarah came to us with a severe injury in her upper limb, with open fractures”, he explained. “In fact she had a complicated injury on her entire right side. Due to her situation she was rushed to surgery”.
“The fractures were placed in a splint and in a joint operation between the hand department of Asaf HaRofeh and the hematological department from Tel Hashomer led by Shelly Gurwitz, the hand was reattached with arteries, nerves and bones and is at present recuperating”, he added. According to Dr. Avishar, Sarah will be transferred to the ICU to stabilize her situation.
“At this stage we can see the vital signs of the fingers, there is a good blood supply to the limbs and to the reattached arm” he said. “We are hoping for the best. She underwent a very long surgery and lost a lot of blood. After her situation stabilizes we will reevaluate the injuries to limbs and possibly she will need more treatment”.
The fiancée, a student at the Kol Torah yeshiva, went yesterday (Monday) to an uplifting meeting with Maran Rav Chaim Kanievski Shlita. Rav Kanievski gave him encouragement and told him that “One must strengthen his simple faith an acknowledge that all is from Hashemm, blessed be He, and all is for the good”.
The family requested to pray for Sarah Bat Dina for a full recovery.