8/18/14

Last night didn’t end with the update I posted. After finally getting to the room and falling asleep both me and Eli were woken up a few minutes later by the nurse telling us that the platelet count came back not high enough and that he now also needed blood. So for the next 3+ hours every 20 minutes they came in to take Elis blood pressure and temperature. It was just a long miserable night.

BH they let us sleep late and instead of taking Eli to the OR at 9AM we went closer to 12. They also brought something that resembles a bed which made it a lot easier to be able to rest and sleep today. Once the procedure was done and Eli rested for a little bit he was in a much better mood which bli ayin hora lasted all day.

Just before going into the OR Eli had special surprise visitors Rabbi Jacobs and his wife who were in NY and came special to NYC to visit Eli. This afternoon we also had special visitors that we really enjoyed.

The waiting game has begun and now they will check daily to see the radiation levels as to when Eli is safe and legal to leave the hospital and head back home.

Please continue having Elimelech Ben Basya bsoch shaar choley yisroel in all your 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