1/12/13

Shabos was exceptionally nice and relaxed with BH no surprises. As Eli has almost always done he insisted on coming to Shul on Friday night where all the mispalelim were pleasantly surprised to see him and like I have said always the last month if his blood #s are high enough and he feels up to it we are more then happy to let him. We enjoyed a quiet Friday night bonding/suedah. Although Eli woke up pretty nauseous after taking some nausea medication he started feeling fine and knowing that it was Rosh Chodesh he really wanted to go to Shul again which again we happily took him. Eli entertained our shabos lunch guests and all the crashers we had throughout the day.

Eli’s happy and good mood is rubbing off on everyone around him and seeing that even though he is very sick he still remains extremely upbeat and happy is having that same effect on us and anyone he sees. Over the next few days and weeks when we beezrat Hashem have 16 days to get him to eat as much as possible to gain back some of the weight he lost during chemo before the next round starts so that he can have the strength to continue fighting.

We are davening for a most un eventful week and a good Chodesh full of everything going as planned and hoping that all the treatments are doing only what they are supposed to with no negative side effects. Elimelech Ben Basya should continue to be as happy and strong as possible to help give us and everyone he sees the strength to continue on his long road to a refua shelayma.

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