Chapter 31
Wedding by Remote Control
“I was at New-Hope Medical Center,” she told me one evening when I called her from the base. My breath caught.
“Did something happen?”
“You asked me to go there. Did you forget?”
Yes – I had forgotten that during one of those weekends, I’d asked her to go to New-Hope to get the paperwork I needed for my medical license.
“You have no idea what flashed through my mind for that split second.”
“Sorry, I thought you remembered.”
“So how did it feel to be there, as … as a doctor’s wife?”
“It was the first time I went there not for tests, not for hospitalization, and not for something to do with me.”
“Well…?”
“I was in the administration offices. Naturally, the director’s secretary wasn’t there. Murphy’s law.”
“So what did you do?”
“I left the request with a clerk who promised it would be handled and sent by mail.”
“Perfect.”
“I also went up to the ward.”
“Which one?”
“Yours. Mine. I wanted to see Shira and the boss.”
“And…?”
“Shira wasn’t there. Too bad.”
“And the boss?”
“He was so happy to see me. First time I ever saw him glowing with joy, as if he were the groom.”
“Did you tell him?”
“That we’re getting married, of course! I didn’t want to say, ‘we got married.’ Besides, we’re in the middle of planning the wedding, right?”
“And what did he say?”
“He showered you with compliments. He said, ‘I hope he’ll become an internist and work in our ward. That’s the biggest compliment I can give anyone.’ Yes, I’m quoting him. Believe me, when I left that meeting, I wrote it down so I wouldn’t forget.”
“Chances are I’ll become an internist, but that’s so far off. We’ve got a lot on our plates now – what about the wedding?”
“Do you have time?”
“There’s no one here, so I can listen.”
“I went to the rabbinate, and my father came with me. He testified that I’m single!”
