12/26/12

Unfortunately the day didn’t end the way it started or the way the last few days have gone. We take Eli’s temperature every few hours by scanning his forehead just to be on the safe side and unfortunately he has 102 fever. So we have to call the hospital and let them know and they told us to come in ASAP which is exactly wht we did. Based on his blood levels and numbers they then decide what the next step should be and while we were hopeful his #s would be good they were not. So sadly we are back in CHLA for The night until they can get his white blood cell counts up again.

Thanks to all the people that have donated or are planning on donating A+ blood for Elimelech Ben Basya as we already used the first donation tonight. And of course thanks to Bikur Cholim for arranging it and being on top of it even so late at night.

Due to the fact that his blood #s are down we will have to be even more careful then we have been and restrict visitors to a bare minimum so please don’t just come please text or call either of us PRIOR to leaving your home to make sure that it works for us. A little extra tehilim for anyone that can tonight will definitely help in our hopes that this small somewhat expected bump in the road is nothing serious and that all will be ok so that Eli can go home the sooner the better (as soon as they allow) Tizku lmitzvos

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