5/3/14

Friday night in CHLA we had a very nice and relaxed Seuda with “Uncle” Yoely at which we shmoozed, ate and sang and laughed all together. At 11:30AM today Eli was finally discharged after a long week in CHLA. He was very happy to finally be home and back in his bed and not be bothered every few minutes by the nurses and DRs. As always the last day or 2 of chemo and the few days after that are pretty rough in terms of how he feels and the nausea that comes with it and today was no exception. We did manage to get out finally late Shabos afternoon for a long walk so that Eli can have much needed fresh air.

The plan is to slowly help Eli regain his strength and his blood counts which are at very low levels due to the very high dose chemo he got this week. The DR hopes that on Monday they will infuse some of Elis stem cells and that will give the blood counts a much needed boost. Other then that we hope that there will be no other side effects and that every day IYH will see improvement.

Elimelech Ben Basya is extremely weak right now and can really use some extra tefilos and we hope that’s what this week and this chodesh bring. 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