8/27/13

Eli had a busy morning with 2 appointments at CHLA first for a EKG and then with his primary DR to discuss the next few months. The immunotherapy consists of 7 inpatient weeks from a Sunday night to a Friday morning some are on consecutive weeks and some are every few weeks. This process will IYH begin Sep 8th at night and end Erev YK Friday morning.

IYH on Wed will be the first day back at school for all the kids INCLUDING ELI and while we know he will be missing plenty of days for appointments and treatments but by the fact alone that he has the green light from the DRs to go is a big deal and beezrat hashem he will be fine as he slowly gets back to himself. For those that haven’t seen Eli lately bli ayin hora he definitely has more strength and from the scale today he also gained some weight and while it was a small amount BH he is gaining and not losing. He also has started to grow back his hair and while its still very short its finally coming back.

Please continue to daven that things should continue to go in the right direction for Elimelech Ben Basya and that he should have the strength to last in school for as many hours as he physically can handle.

Separately please have in mind Chaya Mushka bas Hadassa Shaina a local beautiful girl who is beezrat hashem finished all her treatments and do something extra in her zchus that the next few days should only yield good positive results on some very important scans and tests she will be having.

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