Monthly Archives: June 2016

6/29/16

Sorry for the complete lack of postings lately.
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Eli just finished 3 intense weeks of daily radiation‎ and as a result has low blood counts and I need of many blood and platelet transfusions. During the last 40+ months that Eli has so bravely fought this disease there has almost never been a time that he didn’t get a direct donor blood transfusion. In fact there has been HUNDREDS of blood direct donor transfusions give to Eli.
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Currently there is a very low amount of blood in Elis personal blood bank at CHLA and I’m asking of anyone that can to please donate for Eli. The reason I’m asking now more then ever is ‎this week Eli had a bad reaction to the blood transfusion and it was one of the maybe 2-3 times he’s ever gotten a non direct donor unit of blood.
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If you are available please first schedule it with the Bikur Cholim office so that we don’t get to much either and to minimize the time needed at the hospital. Please call 323-852-1900.
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Tizku lmitzvos
Thanks so much‎

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