3/7/13

Eli started the day off very well and BH it ended well also. With not much other then his basic regular schedule scheduled for today he mostly took it easy this morning. At about noon he was taken out by 2 Chai Lifeline volunteer bochurim who took him for lunch for pizza and then to chuckee cheese to play some games and he really had a blast and enjoyed it all. He also felt very good and instead of a bunch of pain medication every few hours he only had one all day.

He BH also looked better today as we continue to hope that his blood counts are climbing as well to hopefully be able to be strong enough to begin chemo as planned on Monday beezrat hashem. Monday mornings blood test will tell us if that can happen or if it will have to wait a few extra days. Eli received a letter today which he receives EVERY single week without fail from a choshuveh family friend and it lightened up his evening (letters, mail, texts, email makes him feel extremely special).

As usual we are asking everyone to keep Elimelech Ben Basya in mind so that the days, weeks, months ahead should all be easy and pain free on the road to Elis refua shelaima.

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