4/27/13

We hope beezrat hashem that the next month aside from some outpatient hospital visits will go as planned and that Eli will be home relaxing and gaining back some weight and strength. The last month has been extremely rough physically and emotionally on Eli and all of us. The smile Eli had on his face leaving the hospital on friday morning was priceless. He has endured a lot lately and has pushed himself to get thru all of it. The minute he leaves the hospital he is happy to do things he won’t do at all while in the hospital from eating normal amounts of food to exercise and even some basic communication comes back very quickly.

From when Eli got home Friday morning until he went to sleep late motzei shabos was filled with everything he wanted to do and we were happy to let it all happen. As usual he insisted on going to davening all 3 times over shabos just that he can feel back into somewhat of a normal routine. Motzei shabos as I have done every year we went to a lag baomer fire which he really enjoys and refused to miss. Over shabos he rested, relaxed and ate a very nice amount and it was very nice to be home back in his and our own beds.

Over the next few days and weeks we hope to help Elimelech Ben Basya continue on the road of a full recovery and help him regain his strength and weight more and more each day so that we can get to what we are going for which is refua shelayma BKAROV. A GUT VOCH

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