7/15/15

We landed Monday night and went to our home away from home to our cousins in NYC. Tuesday morning we were at MSKCC and spent a few hours there doing a check up and transfusions. Unfortunately the DR was out of town so we didn’t get that part done but maybe after camp we will try that.

WED morning we got an early start for the 2 hour drive to camp. There are no words to describe the feeling upon entering camp. There are literally hundreds of staff roaring and cheering each and every kid as they arrive. Eli knew a lot of faces and the ones he didn’t all came over and introduced themselves and made Eli feel as comfortable and happy as possible. The grounds of Camp Simcha are 5 star and there’s nothing there they don’t have. The staff, the nurses, Doctors, counselors, games, lakes, activities, game rooms, it’s nothing you can imagine unless you actually see it.

Eli met his counselor and felt right at home with him. He also knows a few of the counselors in his bunk house from Miami marathon, some from coming to visit in LA and others from Instagram. I spent 4 hours with him and making sure that all was set and I felt totally at ease leaving Eli for the 2 week session. He texted us later that he’s having a blast and is enjoying every second. We know he will enjoy every second and even though we will miss him we are really happy with the decision that we sent him. We hope he will have time to post a few pictures on Instagram over the next few weeks @EliGradon is his name if you aren’t yet following him. ‎
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Please keep Elimelech Ben Basya and all cholim‎ in your tefilos.
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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