6/2/13

Eli is now finished 75 percent of the 16 doses of chemo in this round and we hope that these last 4 doses he will IYH will be the last time we ever hear or say the word chemo in our or anyone elses life. This morning Eli was visited by Sori and Ari who spent a few minutes with Eli asking him many questions. The rest of the day was spent for the most part with Bassy while I got a break. I brought Eli a steak from a bbq and he ate it like old times it was very nice and good to see.

I pushed Eli to go to sleep early as he began to start feeling slightly nauseous right before he went to sleep. Up until now Eli has been in a great mood and eating plenty and IYH that will continue with no side effects. As the days go on we have been told to expect to see nausea, mouth sores and extreme weakness. The doctors have been wrong before and we hope this will be the case now as well. The transplant to my understandings take place when Elis counts are either at zero or extremely low and that happens as a result of the chemo he has been taking and they expect that to happen on Friday. They then start to rebuild his immune system with beezrat hashem no complications.

The next few days and weeks will be very trying on Elimelech Ben Basya and his and our sanity and strength and we know he and we will pull thru IYH with the help of the RBSO and some extra tefilos.

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