1/7/13

We are all hoping that treatment days will all go the way today went. We planned for a pretty rough day of chemo and being in the hospital for 8-10 hours starting at 8:30AM until about 6PM. BH as it turned out we were out by 2:45PM and aside from some nausea Eli was the king and his good mood continued. Tuesday will be day 2 of 5 of this 2nd round of treatment and we are hoping to have even a easier day then today. The doctors are continuing to monitor his blood counts and we are doing everything to keep them as high as possible including wearing a face mask over my nose and mouth now while I fight this cold I have.

As the days go on and you learn of the hundreds and maybe thousands of people that on a daily basis are doing many different things bzchus Elimelech Ben Basya and there will never be a way to properly thank everyone but I can tell everyone one thing WE FEEL IT and know it and know that with all of everyone zchusim that is for sure the reason we are going to win this battle and beezrat Hashem continue to be able to do so as easily as possible under the circumstances.

Beezrat Hashem Tuesday will go easier with even less or no side effects at all and Eli should continue to take each day and treatment as well as he BLI AYIN HORA has so far on this long road to his 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