7/5/13

Over the last few days there has been very good progress and beezrat hashem we will continue to only see good progress in the days ahead. Eli has widened the range of food that he is ok with eating and instead of us begging him to eat a few bites he asks for what he wants as often as he wants. Thru eating he has also gained some much needed strength. While all this is very good and very welcome news sadly Eli is still very weak and skinny even after these good gains. IYH as time goes on these small gains will continue but on a better and quicker rate.

This week Eli has an appointment with his new DR that has taken over his case as our original DR is taking a year off to do research. Hopefully things will continue as smoothly as possible with the transition and we will be able to keep on the protocol treatment schedule.

Thank you to the many people that inquired the last few days as to how Eli was doing since there was no update on this blog. I was out of town for those days and didn’t have a minute to update on Elimelech Ben Basya. Please continue to have him and all cholim in mind as we continue to help Eli be zoche to a refua shelayma bkarov. GUT SHABOS

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