9/5/15

We got home late Friday afternoon from the scans, transfusions and DR appt and Eli was feeling pretty decent and was actually at the Shabos table when he spiked a high fever so off to the ER at CHLA where on its own it went back to normal only to come back a few hours later so they decided to admit us. They drew labs, cultures and put IV antibiotics and a platelet transfusion and then decided BH late Shabos afternoon that since the fever had subsided for 12 hours and bli ayin Hora cultures were still negative to allow us to go home!!
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Eli is at home resting and taking walks around the block but is pretty tired from the many different medications they have him on. We are hoping to be able to stay home and wait until chemo starts beezrat hashem mid week.
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Please as always continue having Elimelech Ben Basya in your tefilos. A GUT VOCH‎

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”

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9/5/15