12/19/12

Eli has definitely had better days but much better days are still ahead. He felt very nauseous and irritated most of the day as he has had enough of being in the hospital. On a positive note he did eat more then he has eaten the past few days and walked more as well. Today was his 3rd day of 5 days of a long set of chemo treatments that he will need.

Tommorow beezrat Hashem he will have another treatment as well as other treatments where he will have to sit still (hard for him or any Gradon to do) for a good while. We are hoping he will feel better and be in a better mood so that the doctors can do what they need to do.

On a separate note we are Begging of everyone and anyone that would like to “just stop by” to please not do so. Eli’s immune system is starting to weaken and therefore before you even think of coming please think to yourself: Are you sick? Is your spouse or anyone in your household sick or been sick in the last 10 days? If you can even think that maybe yes DO NOT come.

Furthermore sometimes it may not be the best time for you to come visit here in the hospital and IYH soon at home because the time works for you. Please call or text either of us to make sure that when you want to come works for us and Eli. Also in the hospital they do not allow any visitors past 9PM and only 2 visitors at a time and we need to respect that.

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