4/30/13

Bli ayin hora Eli definitely showed some improvement today and we hope its the start of a new trend. He walked further then he’s walked in a while and didn’t lose his breath to quickly either. While he has a long way to go we are extremely happy with baby steps as long as they are headed in the right direction which today showed signs that way. He also felt better about himself and got out a little bit more and ate more to.

We hope we are getting closer and headed in the direction of a stronger, healthier and heavier Eli IYH over the next few days and weeks as we prepare for the next stage in the treatment. On Thursday the home health nurse will come to our home and draw Elis blood which will let us know how his blood counts are and if he will need a blood or platelet transfusion. Other then that hopefully beezrat hashem Eli has nothing else planned for about a week and we are not complaining.

Please as always continue to daven for Elimelech Ben Basya and all cholim. I haven’t really been good about thanking individuals lately for their tefilos, kabalos and many other personal things people have done for Eli and our family’s behalf lately and we really appreciate it and it means the world to us. We look forward to besuros tovos only.

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