Shlomi Shabbat has not fully recovered, but is already talking about his difficult experience ("You always want to breathe"), Yehuda Barkan ("I took it very hard") and his message from the whole period
About a week and a half after he was released to his home after a three-week hospitalization due to coronary heart disease, Shlomi Shabbat speaks.
In his first encounter with his familiar smile, the bright face, which except for the small oxygen tube attached to it can not be seen that it is a person who fell ill, Shlomi Shabbat presented a lively and optimistic presence, and it is evident that he cherishes the much love he received in those difficult days.
"I wanted to say thank you," he opened the meeting with the media, "I saw all the articles and shows on TV I had in the room, and I wanted to thank you because it is very, very empowering, all the kind words you said."
With a pleasant openness in the typical humor he shared the feelings that accompanied him in the hospital, and also those that accompany him now.
"Everyone looked like aliens in the hospital," he recalls, "there was someone who blew me out in a place where no one could, and after I hugged her with excitement and said thank you to her he says to me 'I'm Ahmad from Kfar Yassif.'
"There were very difficult moments," Shlomi added, "they put in my head that I need to keep, that I am in a risk group, and the thing I was afraid of happened. I still do not breathe one hundred percent alone. As for appetite, for me it worked upside down, unfortunately, I became a balloon. "The patients pampered me with good food. The truth is that it's all thanks to you, I got amazing energies there because the staff saw the news and articles and it made a bit of a mess there, they started coming from other departments, and luckily it was forbidden to enter the room."
When Shlomi referred to Yehuda Barkan, who was also hospitalized at about the same time, he was saddened.
"It affected me because I loved him very much, dear man. We were hospitalized together at about the same time and it was very difficult. There were moments I was in his condition and a miracle happened, people prayed for me and people prayed for him, and he did not survive it. I took it very hard, It hurt me terribly and it still hurts me. "
Shabbat was in no hurry to provide far-reaching insights into the disease that has turned the world upside down: "I think it's early, I'm still recovering, still limited, going to do respiratory physiotherapy and such and such exercises, but there will be insights. Appreciate anything small, things I could not do Like just taking a shower or eating. This disease also hurts you mentally, you are alone for many hours, do not see people, everything seems excessive. Hospital professionals told me it is understandable and known. Ask me if I am not bored during all these hours alone, so I "I want to say that this is the most boring disease in the world because you are busy breathing, you constantly want to breathe, the hours go by and you do not feel it."
• Listen to the song "Come Home" by Shlomi Shabbat
during the illness Shabbat also released a new song with his children and sister.
“We decided with my manager and publicist that the song‘ Come Home ’would be the next song, and then what happened happened and I was hospitalized.
Even I would hear the song and cry, it is exciting and strengthening. "
Which moment was the hardest?
"At home, in front of the hospital, when I felt unwell and realized I had to go, I went through a crisis, I realized that oxygen was no longer helping me and suddenly I was taken in a cart, an ambulance arrives, my daughter started crying, a Turkish movie. It was the hardest."
Shabbat also referred to Pike's announcements about his death.
"I do not know if it was difficult for me to see it, I know that it is impossible without these people, it is impossible for everyone to be good and smiling, there is also a need for those who will be interested, but yes, it is not pleasant to read that I was at my funeral."
Was there a moment when you thought about the end?
"There was one difficult evening where I deteriorated and the doctors came and told me they were taking me to the intensive care unit. It was a great Hoshana night, an important day in Judaism and the Torah. I was afraid of the words 'intensive care' and took advantage of the doctor's love and told him I would give him a few more hours. And that in the morning I would go to intensive care, and then like in fairy tales, I felt that an entire nation was praying for me, and in the morning he came and saw that all the indicators had improved, and said that they were waiting for it in the meantime. "
What did you miss the most?
"For my performances, for my audience, a special audience that you are not sure who is really performing, me or them. And in general, I missed life."
Shabbat prefers not to refer to whoever infected him.
"He's already with pangs of conscience," he revealed, "what happened happened, we drove somewhere, we were in a car, my personal manager was also infected."
And he also has a message: "When I was alone in the room, the only one I saw in front of me was the creator of the world, with whom I spoke. "You put me in proportion. I'm a person who always knows where I am, and is in proportion, but suddenly I felt like, we're so small. My message is to listen to instructions, keep, put on masks. Try not to get this disease because suffering is not worth the wedding or party."
Shabbat is still not completely healthy ("I feel good, play, sing, shower, but still can not go out and walk around. By and large I need a few more good days"), but he ends the meeting in a way that only he knows, takes a guitar and sings to everyone the "Only because of the wind," in the familiar voice we all missed.