5/5/13

There was not much change in the last day or so for Eli. He has a lot of pain in his throat, jaws and mouth and some sores on his tongue and to say the least he’s not very happy or comfortable. He has been taking medication to help subside the pain and it helps but only to a certain point. This is a result of this past round of chemo and although we were expecting it we thought that since it hadn’t happened yet it won’t happen. Unfortunately Eli wasn’t so lucky and he is having the side effects now. There wasn’t much we were able to do to relax him other then medication and ices and fresh air.
This week on Tuesday beezrat hashem they will start a long batch of testing so that we can hopefully have a good idea on how Eli is doing and if the chemo, surgery and everything we have done and he has gone thru is doing what it should. While the tumor was taken out during surgery we hope and daven that it hasn’t started to grow again. Aside from that they have to see how its affecting the cancer in his bones to see if it has gone away or started to disappear etc.

We look forward and daven non stop that Elimelech Ben Basya will not have any more pain. Also that the next few weeks with all the scans he will be having that all results should be as good if not better then what they hope for so that we can help Eli continue fighting this machla.

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