7/28/13

Beezrat hashem tonight will be the last time Eli is in the hospital for a unplanned unscheduled stay. When your mentally prepared for it somehow it seems a little easier. The unexpected and then extended longer even are not easy to put it mildly. Eli BH is made out of different material then we are and is extremely calm and generally in a very good mood but I think even at this point he has had enough and wants to go home. IYH tonight will go smooth and we hope to be able to squeeze him in for the first radiation appointment of the day so that once he’s home he can stay home and relax for the day instead of coming back again later in the afternoon.

We don’t have an exact amount of time yet but for the near future Eli will be getting extra nutrition thru his NG tube as well as regular food. They taught us how to clean and attach the NG tube to the pumps etc so that when Eli gets home we can take care of it without a nurse. Eli is looking forward to the next week full of fun with his cousins who are coming in for my sisters wedding IYH this Wed night and of course to enjoy the actual wedding. Eli still has to come back daily for 7 more radiation treatments which hopefully will continue to move smoothly.

Please continue to daven for Elimelech Ben Basya in hopes that he will be able to go home in the AM on Monday and stay home without CV any further complications. We look forward to some sense of a little normalcy for ourselves and mostly Eli and his siblings back at home as a family.

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