3/9/13

Friday morning was just complete relaxation time for Eli until about 12:30PM when his rebbi Rabbi Jacobs came and learned with him and even finished the parsha with him. At about 1PM it was off to CHLA where he went for a scheduled short test which kept us there for less then 20 minutes BH. Friday night of course Eli went to shul and was in a great mood saying hello to everyone and davening. He enjoyed the Friday night seuda with some family friends and ate a very nice amount and went to sleep late.

I had to wake him shabos morning for davening which he is usually up early for but BH slept pretty late. Then we had kidush and went ate the seuda with a big appetite, came home and had a few friends waiting for him. Motzei shabos we went to the final motzei shabos learning program of this year and the first raffle picked who wins??? None other then King Eli he was beaming with joy. We then went to pizza for a siyum on the parsha that he finished on Friday which his rebbi awarded him.

With a busy medical schedule hopefully planned for this week including 5 days of chemo if Elimelech Ben Basyas blood counts allow for it we need to daven and hope that the usual side effects that generally come with this type of chemo (extreme nausea) DO NOT happen. A GUT VOCH

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