2/25/13

Eli woke up exactly how we expected him to with a huge smile and all excited to head to the apple store at 8:30AM. One problem the apple store doesn’t open until about 11AM. He counted down the minutes and was ready to roll as soon as they opened. The smile this IPAD has brought to him as he feels like an adult and very important with it and we couldn’t be happier as the happier he is the happier we are and his laugh and smile are both contagious.

On Tuesday its time to get back on schedule again with a somewhat normal life with doing davening, some school work, learning etc. We don’t have many plans for the week other then to keep Eli happy and healthy and eating. Bli ayin hora this round of chemo was a lot easier then round prior and the nausea was substantially less so hopefully he will regain the few pounds he lost and gain a few extra as well.

Please keep Elimelech Ben Basya in your tefillos in hopes that he will continue to have the strength and courage to fight this machla and in hopes that the side effects will be non existent. Again I can’t stress enough our deepest appreciation to everyone that keeps Eli in mind as that’s what’s keeping us and our family going during this test. We should be zoche to see Eli and all cholim have a full refua BKAROV.

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