4/22/13

This morning we for the first time in a long while we saw some minor improvement in Eli gaining some strength. Bli ayin hora he didn’t need us to carry him for the short distances he has needed us to do lately. The morning was spent waiting at home for the hospital to call us to let us know when a bed will become available. After we realized that there wasn’t going to be an open bed in the AM Eli went for ice cream with Bassy and really enjoyed getting out.

Finally at 3PM we got the call that an open bed was available for Eli. After going thru the admission process Eli finally settled into a bed at about 5PM. There is a long hydration process prior to the actual chemo being administered and that will go on until his body has reached certain levels and then chemo will begin. As I write this Eli is still awake and BH in a good mood and hopefully this round of chemo will not come with the normal hard side effects that usually are associated with this round.

Hopefully the week will go by without any side effects, pain or anything else chas vashalom and all that should take place is the chemo doing what it should which is bring Elimelech Ben Basya closer to a refua shelayma.

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