5/30/13

Once again we win. We have since Eli was diagnosed always prepared for the hardest and hope for the best and for this treatment we were prepared for what we thought is this basically a type of jail. Completely wrong BH. Extremely nice and caring staff so far and it is basically the same type of room that Eli has always had other then a lot less private as there is a glass wall so that the nurses can constantly keep an eye on Eli and the IV and everything else.

Eli got to CHLA on time at 2PM and after being checked in and reviewing some of the rules and procedures was led to his room. After relaxing and playing games finally at 8PM they hooked up the IV which is a medication to try to help avoid some side effects that the chemo can cause. At midnight they will IYH begin hydration for about 4 hours and at 4AM they will begin what they call high dose chemo. During the chemo to make sure all is going ok in a 2 hour span they will draw and test his blood 9 times!!! BH all this is done thru his line and hopefully they will be quiet so that I and Eli will be able to sleep thru it. This will be what they plan on doing for the next 5 nights beezrat hashem.

Haven’t asked many questions as to what takes 30 days as we are just hoping to get thru this as easy and quick as possible. Thanks to everyone for their words of chizuk before we went in and for the constant tefilos. We look forward to being zoche to see Elimelech Ben Basya have a redua 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