5/2/13

Elis day did not consist of much because he wasn’t up to doing much. He woke up later then usual and didn’t have much strength to leave bed other then to go outside for the few walks we took together. His home health nurse came at about noon to draw his blood and as expected his blood counts were pretty low so we will be going to CHLA as soon as Eli wakes up for a blood transfusion. Early in the afternoon Elis Rebbi Rabbi Jacobs came to try to lift Elis spirits and he definitely did BH.

There are some side effects which beezrat hashem will not get any worse that are now hitting Eli from this past round of chemo such as pain in his jaw and some sores in his mouth. We are keeping Eli on pain pills which he only allows us to give him once he’s really in pain and on nausea medication. We are hoping that the boost that hopefully the blood transfusion will give him will help him gain some much needed strength, weight and his appetite as well.

Please continue to daven on Elimelech Ben Basyas behalf that IYH all will go smoothly in the hospital on Friday morning and that the blood transfusion should do only what its meant to. Hopefully all will go easy and smooth and we should be in and out in about 5 hours.

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