1/2/13

Eli and all of us hope that 2013 will be as good as today was. We went to meet with his DR at CHLA this morning and while the process has a few steps they all moved right along. First you need to “check in” then they weigh him and check his vital signs, then they take blood, then you finally go to the room where the doctor meets you. Keep in mind Eli is 7 and for each of those steps although it’s all on the same floor of the hospital each step has a waiting room and then you go into the actual exam room. But BH Eli was very brave and behaved very well and has many of his own questions that he asked to the doctor. After all was said and done we were there from 8:30- 11:45 with the end result of today clearly good with all his vital signs and espically his blood counts at a good or above good rate.

The day continued with a conference call with DR Kushner who is the the go to man in this form of cancer and is based out of Sloan Kettering in NYC and Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz (who isn’t a DR but knows more then most doctors and has always been there to help us every step of the way since Aug with Eli’s Initial pains. SY you and your wife and family we will never be able to thank you enough) who basically all agreed that we are taking the correct course of action and encouraged us to continue in CHLA.

There will be a hilchos Nida shiur this Sunday evening at 8:00PM at the home of Eli Solomon 417 N. Citrus Ave bzchus Elimelech Ben Basya and the many other Cholim of our community for men only given by Rabbi Tauber. Tizku lmitzvos

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