5/17/13

Elis day started early today as he needed to be in CHLA for a scheduled bone marrow biopsy. After sitting and waiting for it to begin they finally called Eli at about 11:15 and he was in the OR for about 15 minutes and BH all went well. After being in the recovery room for a few short minutes to wake up they sent us home at 12:15. Eli seems to be doing fine other then being tired. He was finally able and up to eating once he got home which he gladly did.

We hope Eli gets some rest, energy and some much needed weight over Shabos and next week as there is more testing to be done on Monday and Tuesday. We don’t yet have results from today biopsy and are not expecting them until about Tuesday and we hope and daven it will be only the best. As of now the following week 5/27 is when the stem cell transplant will begin.

Thank you to everyone for keeping Elimelech Ben Basya in their tefilos and we hope to continue to only have good reports. Also thank you very much to the many people who have done so much for us over the last few weeks and months arranging, doing, bringing, going etc we will never be able to properly thank you. GUT SHABOS

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