4/15/13

After a long 10 days of being in NY for surgery and recovery we finally landed back in LA late Monday night. Eli was thrilled to finally feel some normalcy after being in surgery, ICU, POU, shared room, stuffed in a small hotel room and just not being in a normal surrounding and far away from home. While he is extremely weak from everything going on we hope to help him slowly regain his strength and to get his spirits lifted to the way they were before surgery and the way we know him.

We are hoping that it will be ok with the doctors to postpone the next round of chemo until next week as we really don’t feel physically or emotionally Eli is ready for it and we definitely are not up to it either. Sori and Ari are extremely happy and relieved to finally see Eli home and we hope they get some bonding time together before next round of chemo.

There are many organizations that have helped tremendously on behalf of Eli in many different aspects and we can’t thank them enough. This entire trip to NY would not have been possible at all without Chai Lifeline. They arranged EVERYTHING for us and made it as if it was no big deal and always done quickly with no fan fare. I don’t have proper words of hakaras hatov.

Please continue to daven for Elimelech Ben Basya that he should fully regain his strength and spirit. We hope to see him shortly with his bubbly personality and full of strength BKAROV

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