Special Delivery

by: Chaya Tavin

- ‘Scuse me-is this here - uh, let me see uh Tavin?

 - Yes but...

- I got a package here for you

- I'm sorry my wife is sort of occupied right now could you maybe come another time?

- Of course she's occupied - that's what I'm here for. I'm the messenger for the department of population, new babies division. I got a package here for Tavin.

Now you, Mommy, you have to sign here - but first I see you have some special instructions here. Yeh, it says here uhm lets see mild respiratory distress (that means he's really blue lady, needs oxygen) let's see what else heart murmur you have to check out.

- Heart murmur?!  What do you mean heart.. - what heart problem?? And why is he so blue? Is he breathing? What is going on? What are they saying? Why are there so many doctors in here?

 - Hey lady I'm just the delivery guy You got to ask Rafi over there - he's the expert with that stuff now what else it says here mental retardation-degree unknown, hypotonic (that means he's floppy, lady), simian crease (that means he's got one line on his palm instead of two lady) uhm mongolic eyes yeh, let's see wed neck, head lag-smaller jaw protruding tongue-you folks here call that Down Syndrome

- Down Syndrome?!

- Yeh now lady, like I said you gotta sign here

- Sign? Sign here? Sign What?

- Here lady read it

      Sender: HaKadosh Baruch Hu

      Place of origin: Heichal Haneshamos

      Recipient: Tavin Family, Jerusalem, Israel

      I Chaya Tavin accept with joy this special neshama

   You gonna sign lady?

- Sign,.. yes we'll sign, of course we'll sign that's my son but....

- Lady you gonna sign or not?

- Ok, ...I'm signing - do you have a pen?

- No, lady these here packages you don't sign with a pen, these packages you gotta sign for them - with love