2/22/13

Finally at 9AM we got the ok to go home and Eli and we couldn’t be more excited. We got our stuff together and got into the car and as soon as we pulled out of CHLA Eli asked to roll down the windows for his first breath of fresh air all week. The little things we all take for granted are big deals in his life. But the main thing was his smile on his face when we finally got home. And the celebration from Sori and Ari when they got home after also not seeing him all week.

The rest of the day was just pure relaxation and slowly letting Eli work on getting back his full appetite. We look forward to a restful relaxed shabos and hope he will be up to going to shul. He is very excited about Purim and just being part of the fun and not laid and beezrat hashem he will be up to doing all that.

Please have Elimelech Ben Basya in all your tefilos especially on Purim (which is a big day for tefila) in hopes that once again the doctors will be very wrong and the usual side effect of fever and nausea will be non existent so that we can have Eli stay home until his next scheduled appt. 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