8/14/13

This morning shortly after Eli woke up he was taken downstairs to have his MIBG scan. Hopefully no one will ever know what that machine or room looks like but its a big ugly machine that scans each portion of the body and it scans every bone to make sure that whatever disease was there is either not there, shrinking etc. It takes about 90 minutes for the scan to be complete which during the scan you can not move at all or the pictures will be unclear. For anyone let a lone an 8 year old to lay still for 90 minutes is plenty hard let alone if their last name is Gradon. But BH Eli the champ did it and once again bli ayin hora we got great results a few hours after the scan was done. All areas that were once affected with disease are now completely clear.

On Thursday morning Eli will be brought downstairs again to have his bone marrow biopsied to make sure IYH it is clear also. The procedure requires general anesthesia however it is less then 10 minute procedure. Eli continues to be on the TPN and BH has had no reaction to it and the doctors are satisfied and hopefully Eli will be able to go home earlier then originally planned for.

Please daven that we should continue to have clear and clean results on all scans and that Elimelech Ben Basya will take well to this TPN that he will need to be on for the foreseeable future.

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Mordy August 15, 2013 at 1:54 pm

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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