6/11/14

At 9AM Eli was wheeled into the OR for a check on his bone marrow and to insert a catheter. At MSKCC they do the bone marrow at 4 different sites 2 in front and 2 in back where as opposed to CHLA they only do 2 in the front. That combined with the catheter had Eli in a lot of pain right after the procedure but BH for the pain killers he fell asleep and woke up a few hours later in a much better mood. At 2:30PM the DRs walked in with the MIBG therapy treatment locked in very secure cases and 20 minutes later it was all done.

Now is just a waiting game and it will take time for the extremely high volumes of radiation to leave Elis body so that he can legally leave the hospital. Late in the day after all was done I knew Eli was feeling a lot better when he asked for a steak and ate most of it. Late this evening I was informed by the hospital that they will enforcing their rule for the 9th floor of no visitors to arrive after 8:30PM.

We now have 6 long weeks to daven that the MIBG therapy results will be good for Elimelech Ben Basya as that’s when they will be able to get a good idea of how he responded to it. If beezrat hashem he responded well then at that point they will repeat this again. They can only do this treatment twice as that’s all a human body can handle.

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