3/18/13

As much as today was a world of a difference from yesterday unfortunately Eli still has a long way to feeling normal. Eli woke up in a good mood and not terribly nauseous and finally asked for food at about noon. He ate it and BH kept it down which he wasn’t able to do yesterday. The problem he is having is being extremely weak from the chemo, from a lack of eating, sleeping and the loss of weight. I had to give him the dreaded shot tonight which is extremely painful for him and possibly even harder for me to watch and do.

On WED morning is a CT scan to get an idea of how much the chemo has done and for the DR to get an idea on what he is up against for the surgery which will be scheduled based on the CT scan. We have very high hopes that most of the tumor has shrunk or disappeared and that the surgery will end up being a minor procedure.

Please continue as always to have Elimelech Ben Basya in mind in your tefilos etc. Even though the news is better then yesterday we have a very hard and long road ahead.

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