7/23/13

After a good night sleep and a good breakfast it was back to CHLA at 11AM. After going thru the admitting process and getting to the room and settling down it was 1PM. After just a few minutes it was time for radiation round 3 of 12 which was very quick once again and BH had no side effects. We got back to Elis room and had discussions with a lot of different staff as to what we feel and what they feel is the best way to go to get Eli to gain some much needed weight. We spoke with the surgeon in NY, his old DR, a GI, a dietary consultant and the oncologist. We decided to go ahead and try the NG tube and see if helps at all. Finally at about 6:30 they inserted the tube which takes about 30 seconds to do and isn’t painful just not pretty or comfortable.

Slowly Eli is adjusting to this tube now hanging from his nose which stretches deep into his stomach and has lots of nutrition going thru it. Hopefully he will get a much needed good nights sleep and will continue to adjust to this tube. They will know by Thursday or Friday if they feel it is doing what they want it to do and will decide and plan on the course of action from there. In the meantime he is inpatient and only connected to this tube and no IVs.

Please continue to daven for Elimelech Ben Basya bsoch shaar choley yisroel as we try to get to the bottom of the diahrrea problem and the loss of weight. IYH we will see quick and good progress so we can help Eli get back to full weight, strength and health and be zoche to a refua shelayma.

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Marcia Fine July 25, 2013 at 3:33 pm

Amen!

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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