11/6/14

There hasn’t been much to update other then Eli has been doing BAH great. He has been in school full time lately and is catching up on some things and on most things he is BH way above his class.

On Tuesday a generous donor thru Bikur Cholim gave Eli 4 tickets to the Laker game which he took 2 of his classmates with and thoroughly had a great night in very good seats (nothing less then that for THE KING)

Today Eli had a scheduled DR visit to see how things are going with the chemo pills and to check his blood counts. Before the scheduled time arrived Eli starting coming down with a low grade fever at 11AM and we immediately took him to the hospital. As lately has gone Elis blood pressure started dropping so they were keeping a very close eye on him but BH he had no fever and the BP stabilized. They then took blood cultures and gave antibiotics as a precaution. After 6 hours in the ER and all was ok we were BH discharged.

We hope and daven that all stays and continues only in the right direction and that the blood cultures which take a day or 2 sometimes to grow bacteria should always be negative. In the meantime everything is status quo and IYH in the morning Eli will feel fine and be back in school.

Please as always continue having Elimelech Ben Basya and our very close friend Chaya Mushka Bas Haddasa Shayna in all your tefilos. We look forward to seeing them and all cholim get what they need and deserve a refua shelayma.

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