12/28/12

Eli and his father will be getting a lot of quiet bonding time together over shabos in CHLA. His fever BH hasnt come back since 9PM Thursday night but his blood counts are not well enough for them to feel comftorable to discharge him before shabos.

Thanks gd but oddly enough his mood has been better then it’s been in quite a while and it kept getting better and better as the day went on. He had a very special mother come and play a whole bunch of games with him this morning and really make him happy then His Rebbi Rabbi Jacobs came to visit him and discussed the weeks parsha with him and he felt very privileged that his Rebbi came here for him. He then spoke on the phone for a minute with my Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Kanarek who gave him a Brocha and made him laugh. That was followed by his zaidy coming to visit him with his uncle.

We are all davening that his counts will get better over shabos and that IYH he will be back home ASAP. Thank you to the many people that are and have gone and continue to go out of their way for us and Eli in many different ways. We should all be zoche to see Elimelech Ben Basya make full and quick recovery refua shelayama bmhayra amen. Gut shabos

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