11/8/14

Shabos morning at 7AM Eli was wheeled to the OR floor and was wheeled into the OR at 7:30. By 8:30 he was awake with his line out finally BH. By 11AM Eli was back to himself eating and cracking jokes and feeling very well. During the surgery they put in his arm a temporary IV line which didn’t work so they had to put it in a different place and it wasn’t fun but as usual Eli got over it pretty quickly.

We had a 2 “uncles” for the Friday night meal and we were all entertained by Eli for the entire time. Today we had another “uncle” come for the morning and then Rabbi Ten early afternoon and then Uncle Reuven and a few friends late in the afternoon and we appreciated everyone of our guests that walked the long walk to visit.

The plan now is to keep Eli in CHLA on IV antibiotics which BAH have so far yielded 2 days of negative cultures since the initial positive culture and beezrat hashem that will only continue. IYH Tuesday morning once again Eli will be back in the OR to have a port surgically inserted. We hope that shortly after that Eli will be discharged.

Please as always continue having Elimelech Ben Basya and all cholim in your tefilos. A GUT VOCH

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