5/9/14

The last few days haven’t been the best for Eli as he has been neutropenic and in turn extremely weak. For the Most part all he has been doing was resting in a quiet bed and enjoying very long walks. Today Eli was in CHLA for both a blood and platelet transfusion and BH we were home by 4:30. The plan for now is to get Eli’s blood counts out of the dangerously low levels they are currently at so that he can start looking and feeling a lot better then he does right now.

We finally have a small update from NY as to the next phase in the treatment which as of now calls for us to be in NY at MSKCC on Monday 5/19 and 5/20 for scans that the DR specifically wants done there. At MSKCC the DR isn’t sure he agrees with the plan of treatment that the DRs at CHLA plan and he may have other possible treatments once he reviews these scans. Once the scans are reviewed he will decide also as to when the treatments he has in mind will begin. We will therefore only plan on being in NY for that short period of scans and then come back IYH at the time they plan on doing treatment.

Please continue as always having Elimelech Ben Basya in your tefilos that all should go well and that Eli should get back to his full strength BKAROV.

On a side note a very young not even 2 year old girl the granddaughter of our Rov was diagnosed with a similar machla that is also requiring her to undergo chemo therapy and we wish her, her parents, her choshuveh grandparents and all their family to have the kochos to help her fight and win this battle. Her name is Golda Bas Miriam. Besuros tovos.

A GUT SHABOS

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