4/24/13

After a very rough night with the nurses, nurses aides, housekeeping and all the staff of CHLA finding stupid reasons to come into the room all night and not allow Eli or myself to sleep they finally had a nice normal nurse take over at 7AM. The morning was a little hard for Eli with some throwing up and having a bad stomach (sadly this has become the norm is his life for now) but BH as the day progressed and the meds kicked in Eli was able to relax and sleep a good portion of the day. Late afternoon Sori and Ari came to hang with Eli and have dinner altogether. At about 9PM after a relaxing bath I took Eli to do what he enjoys the most in CHLA which is to take a long walk around the hospital even slipping outside for a few seconds of needed fresh air.

BH we are now almost thru 48 of 72 hours of this hard round of chemo and hopefully the time will fly so Eli can go home and start the recuperation process once again and hopefully without the predicted side effects. The plan as of now is that sometime on Friday hopefully in the AM Eli will be discharged and will be able to be home beezrat hashem aside from having to go in for appts and scans for about 4-5 weeks.

We are at this point just hoping for one easy day at a time for Elimelech Ben Basya that all side effects or anything else not on the schedule doesn’t happen so that Eli will have the strength, courage and spirit to continue fighting until he has a refua shelayma

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