2/9/13

A GUT VOCH and a GUT CHODESH. BH we got exactly what we asked for over shabos which was just a nice relaxing peaceful shabos. Eli went to Shul for all the tefilos and was overall in a great mood. He ate plenty and we really feel like Eli has finally gotten this past round of chemo BH out of his nauseous system. He spent a good part of shabos afternoon at home just relaxing and playing some board games.

On Motzei shabos he had already planned this over shabos that since his rebbi gave him a gift certificate for the pizza store for knowing all his chumash perfectly that we must go so of course as usual Eli wants Eli gets. We went there and ate up a storm and enjoyed seeing some people we havent in quite a while. We don’t have much planned for Eli this week And hopefully he will just be up to eating a lot and relaxing before we start next week on round 4 of chemo.

We are hoping that the brochas Of simcha that are associated with CHODESH Adar will have the true effect on Elimelech Ben Basya in hopes that he will just be happy and have a very good and easy month with all the treatments he will be having.

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