10/7/14

As of 6AM Eli has been in the ICU for dangerously low blood pressure. Since then they have put him on 2 different BP IV medications and 4 antibiotic IVs to start fighting off what they initially predicted was a possible infection. We did just get word that the cultures are already coming back positive for an infection. They are not sure what type of infection it is but if it is the same infection as last time they will go under the assumption that its being caused by the new central line and will need to temporarily surgically remove it. They won’t have the final results as to what type of infection it is probably until tmrw.

In the meantime the BP meds have helped a lot and BH they have begun to reduce the levels to slowly wean Eli off of it completely IYH. As soon as he is stable and not dependent on BP meds they will move him out of the ICU into a regular room. Unfortunately realistically we will be here for the next while and will not be home for the first days of YT as a result.

They will continue Eli on all 4 antibiotic IVs until they can verify which is the best one for the infection he has and at that point stop the other ones.

Please as always continue having Elimelech Ben Basya bsoch shaar choley yisroel in all your tefilos.

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Leah Reiss October 8, 2014 at 7:47 am

My heart and tefiloes are with you !!!! Hopefully tomorrow will bring bisuroes tovos !!!! Will Ofcourse wait to hopefully hear you are in a room b4 YT. Be positive !!!!!! Be strong !!!!!! And I will be thinking of all of you all YT. !!!!!

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Special Announcement

For the last few months a group of our close friends have been arranging to join Chai Lifelines marathon taking place in Florida on 2/2/14. They have already 12+ people just on the “team Eli” group along the many others that run for Chai Lifeline. To do so every runner goes through MONTHS of rigorous training which they have all began doing already. This is one of the bigger fundraisers for Chai Lifeline who anyone who has ever needed their services knows how vital they are when a family member is going through a illness. And for those who BH haven’t had a sick family member and beezrat hashem will never have should know that they are simply a lifeline. Always there and always thinking about what they can do to take their chesed to the next level.

Our family will forever be makir tov to them for what they have done for us and continue to do. Every runner that signs up is essentially pledging $3600 to join the CL team. Aside from the training they do they must also raise the $$. On the link below there is a team Eli page which shows how much together the team has raised but you can click on each persons name and donate directly to their pledge. We beezrat hashem hope as a family to be there together with Eli who will be pushed in a wheelchair/stroller by one of the runners during the marathon

I look at this as a insurance plan that hopefully your donation should chas vshalom never be used towards your family or anyone you know but for us its the ultimate lifeline. Again I ask that anyone that can should please donate whatever they can “every dollar counts”. If you can donate $5 great if you can do more even better. If you can fully sponsor a runner would be amazing. There is also nothing wrong with a runner more then fulfilling their pledges for this great and worthy cause.

Anyone wishing to join the team should please email Ayalaback@gmail.com and anyone wishing to donate should please go to this link: http://www.teamlifeline.org/myteam.php?myid=88.

All I can say simply is “tizku lmitzvos”

The Gradons