12/24/12

Overall today was a pretty good one BH with Eli eating more each day and slowly gaining some weight and energy we hope as he will need it for the next round of chemo starting IYH in 2 weeks. While he really doesn’t like his medications epically getting his nightly shot he takes it like a pro.

Thanks to Elis Rebbi and the staff of Toras Emes they were able to give us a live connection to his class so that even though he isn’t there he can still learn and feel like he is there and see his friends. The love and the letters that Eli has gotten from his class, our friends, cousins, doctors etc. is really doing wonders as he enjoys reading them all.

We are hoping that he will feel up to going on Tuesday to his zaidys kollel where they are having a yarchei kalla learning program all week but Tuesday has been sponsored by Eli’s uncles Nachum and Reuven as a zchus lrefua for Elimelech Ben Basya and Binyomin Chaim Ben Faigy Sora we hope to be there for a few minutes so he can hear and see it between 10-11AM.

Tizku lmitzvos to everyone who has done chasadim, kollelim, kabalos, tzedakas, tehilim groups etc etc it’s a real zchus

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