5/4/14

Eli is extremely weak and very nauseous which while we have seen this many times after each of the many rounds of chemo it doesn’t get easier seeing it. He has no strength and isn’t happy and just wants to feel normal. To top it off I had to give him the dreaded shot which he always gets the day after a chemo session is done. Hopefully Eli will wake up feeling a lot better and stronger

On Monday morning Eli has to be back at CHLA for a Clinic appointment to receive more of his own stem cells which the goal for that beezrat Hashem is to help boost his extremely low blood counts. That in turn should give him more strength and coloring back do that he can start feling normal again. We as always are taking one day at a time and hoping that from today and on things only get easier and better for Eli.

Eli had a choshuveh visitor Reb Malkiel Kotler from Lakewood who came to visit Eli bedside and although Eli wasn’t up to talking or getting up he knew, heard and was very happy with the Brocha the RY gave him.

Please continue to daven for Elimelech Ben Basya that Mondays stem cell transplant should go well and do what it’s meant to do and every day from here on should only get easier and better.

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