9/30/13

After a good night sleep Eli got a pretty early start to the day and was headed to CHLA before 10AM. After going thru the admission process Eli finally got to his room and went thru the regular checkups from the DRs and nurses. They finally got the IV going at about 2PM and it runs for 4 days straight so that means beezrat hashem if all goes well discharge should be in the afternoon on Friday.

Usually Eli once he gets to the hospital decides he’s done eating until he leaves and today was no different. HOWEVER at 4PM he decided he was in the mood of eating and even though the hour was late Rabbi Ten and Adina at Bikur Cholim who never have let us down had it arranged and delivered shortly after. Eli ate it all and enjoyed it and we couldn’t be happier. THANKS

So far so good Eli is feeling fine and was in a great mood all day and finally got to sleep at about 11PM. Hopefully they won’t bother him to many times and will let him sleep so that he can be up and strong for tommorow. Bli ayin hora there have been no side effects and we hope it will stay that way.

Please daven that the week and all the treatments should go by easily for Elimelech Ben Basya bsoch shaar choley yisroel.

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