12/17/15

Eli is BH slowly recuperating from last week’s inpatient stay at the hospital. On Tuesday we got lucky when Eli went for a lab check and he didn’t need a transfusion. Today as expected Eli is getting a unit of direct donor blood. ‎
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I write this because this Sunday Bikur Cholim is having a blood drive to benefit Children’s Hospital ay Yavneh. This blood will help to save so many children, including those who we know from our community. It is VERY important that Bikur Cholim along with the frum community for whom CHLA does a lot to accommodate, show the hospital that we care and will help with this blood shortage for their patients. Bikur Cholim has in CHLA kosher meals, a fridge in every room that a jewish patient is in, direct donor blood program, shabos candles, extensive medical referrals, and a very long list of other services. As I have mentioned many times, the help Bikur Cholim has done and continues to do for Eli and our family on a daily basis ‎and we have and owe them a tremendous amount of Hakaras Hatov, please if you have time this Sunday to donate blood at Yavneh call the Bikur Cholim office at 323-852-1900. Tizku Lmitzvos!
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Eli IYH next week will have scans on WED to see what the latest status of the disease is and to determine the next best course of action.
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Please as always have Elimelech Ben Basya bsoch shaar choley yisroel in all your tefilos.‎

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