2/27/13

Eli had another small bump in the road today that we hope doesn’t last very long. He woke up in a lot of pain in his mouth (we were warned and somewhat expected it) and didn’t want to eat or drink. We spoke to his doctor who didn’t want to prescribe any medication over the phone without seeing him. So we took Eli to CHLA and they gave us some medication and once he was there they drew some blood to see how he is doing and his counts were at zero so they gave him a blood transfusion.

Over the next few days we need to be extremely careful as to where he goes and who is in physical contact with Eli to avoid chas vshalom any infections as his body simply doesn’t have the means to fight it right now. Hopefully the blood transfusion will help the #s to rise and get Eli back to himself.

Our hopes continue to be very high that this pain won’t last as it is extremely hard to see Elimelech Ben Basya in any pain. Hopefully he will wake up and the pains will be gone and the side effects will not come back.

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