After settling into our room late last night they had Eli on a lot of IV fluids to keep him hydrated as his temperature rose at one point to 105+. Upon arriving at the ER Elis blood levels were surprisingly good but this mornings lab draw showed a different story as they completely nose dived. Eli received a large blood transfusion which definitely helped give him some energy and color.

Late this morning we got the blood culture results that we didn’t want to hear Eli has another infection and we won’t know for 24-72 hours from when they became positive as to what type of infection it is so once again Eli is on all antibiotics to make sure they are fighting it. Most of the day Eli has had fever between 100-103 and he is constantly getting tylenol to help with that and hopefully the antibiotics are doing their job and once the infection gets better IYH so will the fever. We will be in CHLA until he has 3 days of negative cultures and no fever which means in a perfect world we will be lucky if we get to go home on Monday.

This weekend Eli was meant to be flying on Motzei Shabos on a trip he has been looking forward to for months to Orlando to join Chai Lifeline alone with a counselor and a bunch of other children from across the world sadly this won’t be happening this year but beezrat hashem next year he will be up for it.

To make Eli happy Yaakov Jeidel a Chai Lifeline volunteer and the counselor Eli was meant to go with Yehuda Katz along with many others had all their friends and anyone they know bring a smile to Elis face by having HUNDREDS of people start following @EliGradon on instagram and now Eli is happily famous, THANK YOU to everyone that follows or started following and to all the people that made this happen it really helped lift Elis spirits after a long rough day.

We look forward to a better day on Friday and the coming days for Elimelech Ben Basya. Please continue having him in all your tefilos.