Creak, Creak!

This blog has become a diary of sorts, and I enjoy looking back at all the fond memories.  I often sit down and read old posts, and love to re-live the old memories, whether touching, funny, or downright crazy.  Little comments or incidents that I would have otherwise forgotten completely, are recorded here, so that I can look back in years to come.  So I'm going to share this funny story with you, more for my own benefit- so I won't forget it!

One day, Bentzi noticed that when he walked, he often heard a strange creaking sound.  First he thought it was from his shoe, (no floorboards here in E"Y so we didn't think it was that) but when he was wearing his Crocs, it still happened.  Strange indeed.  So then Bentzi thought maybe its coming from his knee.  But after listening closely for a day or two, he determined that it was coming from his ankle.

Of course, in typical Jewish mother (wife?) fashion, I began to worry.  Which type of doctor should he see? What terrible illness or condition could Bentzi have?  I began to read all sorts of scary articles online, about athritis and other terrible diseases and conditions, and began to worry about my poor husband, already beginning to age while still in the prime of his life.  The fears and questions began to plague me: what will he be like when he's older, if he's already having problems now?  How will we treat this?  Oy, Hashem, please make it go away!

I continued researching online, hoping that I'd find some comforting article, to allay my fears.  I came accross an interesting forum, where people were discussing how their feat squeak.  One after the next, all with the same problem, but no one seemed to find any treatment or solution.  I was about to give up on reading the thread, when at post #13 I had not one piece of helpful info.  But I kept reading on, and at post #16, I read the following:

I quickly called Bentzi over, and asked him to take off his belt and go for a walk.  Guess what?  No creaking!  Then I told him to put it back on...yes, you got it- the creaking came right back!  I had a major laughing fit, releasing my worries about Bentzi's "condition" and marveling at the ridiculous reason behind it! 

For days afterward, we both felt a tremendous sense of relief and הכרת הטוב that it turned out to be nothing.  That Shabbos, Bentzi shared the story with the kids, and even demonstrated by changing belts- and made sure to drive home the message of appreciating our health and being gratful to the רבש"ע  for our bodies.

May we all be healthy and be able to use our bodies to serve Hashem, for many many years to come!