7/28/14

Today started at 4:30AM with a lot of vomiting and non stop diarrhea every few minutes. At 8:30AM Eli felt warm and he was very warm according to the thermometer nearly 103 so we zipped to CHLA where they as always put him on immediately antibiotics. We were in the ER room for about 5 hours before they finally got a bed on the 4th floor but not in a very ideal location. Eli is for now in the BMT unit which is the only place on the floor that had a bed open. Although he doesn’t need to be there since all the other kids there need to be there we need to keep all the rules that come with that unit. Hopefully a bed in the regular floor will open and we will be transferred there so it will be easier to get in and out.

Bli ayin hora so far all the cultures have been negative and beezrat hashem they will stay negative. The problem right now is that even with all the tylenol and IVs and antibiotics and both a blood and platelet transfusion again today his fever is still pretty high.

Obviously for right now we are not going to NY as a result of this and we don’t know when we may go now as we don’t know how long Eli will need to be in patient for. As always we will take one good day at a time and hope the next is even better and beezrat hashem Eli will be able to leave CHLA sooner then later.

As always please keep Elimelech Ben Basya in your tefilos as we daven that this is nothing and that we can continue with the treatments as soon as possible. A GUT CHODESH

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