8/28/15

Eli just finished another round of chemo today and BH for the most part went well. We spent a good part of Monday night in the ER with a very low grade fever but after monitoring Eli and taking blood cultures they discharged Eli. On Tuesday 8/25 was Eli’s 10th English birthday (Chuf Av was hebrew) we celebrated it with his DR and nurses with a cake and pizza in the infusion center while getting chemo. The brocha Eli gives everyone always is “you should live until 120” and we like to say “kol hamisborech yevarech” and IYH Eli will live in good health to 120.
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Eli’s blood counts were not as high as we would of liked them this week so he got both a blood and platelet transfusion which hopefully did the trick. Next week IYH is a full set of scans which on Tuesday they will first make sure Eli’s blood counts are up to where they want them and if they are not they will transfuse. WED morn they will do the bone marrow biopsy, Thurs at noon they will give the MIBG injection followed by a Friday morning MIBG scan. These scans will beezrat hashem guide us as to what, where and when the future treatments will be and where they will take place.
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Please as always have Elimelech Ben Basya and the many cholim that need a refua in your tefilos. A GUT SHABOS

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