4/14/15

Eli was in the ER for about 2 hours where they were monitoring him and giving IV fluids while they were taking blood cultures etc. Very suddenly and quickly his blood pressure took a quick turn ‎and was extremely low. They right away moved Eli up to the ICU and put him on Dopamine which helps regulate blood pressure. It took a few hours to stabilize but BH it finally did.

Because of the blood pressure medication running constantly they needed a second IV for the blood and platelet transfusion as well as all the antibiotic that was ordered. It took 3 painful tries until they were finally able to get a vein to work.
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BAH after the blood pressure stayed stable and the day went by they slowly were able to wean Eli off of it until late this evening were finally able to shut that IV off. BH Eli was finally able to eat once that took place and has been in a great mood ever since. The other good news and BAH that will stay that way is all the blood cultures remain negative and haven’t grown any bacteriaial infections. They will keep Eli on antibiotic as a precaution and IYH early Wed will move Eli out of the ICU to a regular room.
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Please as always continue having Elimelech Ben Basya and all cholim in your tefilos. ‎

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