3/10/13

Eli was in a great mood and overall had a very good day. Started the day off with his sisters birthday party for her class and spent the rest of the afternoon at home. At about 6:45 a friend of ours offered us his tickets to the Clippers basketball game which Eli loves to go to so even though we were a few minutes late we were there for most of the game which we really enjoyed. After a late filling dinner it was finally off to bed at 10:00PM hoping Eli will sleep late.

IYH on Monday we will once again be headed to CHLA where we are hoping Elis blood counts will be high enough to begin round 5 of chemo. Once we are there they will do a quick blood test and we should know results within 2 hours if we will be staying for the week or needing to come back a few days later. We want to get it over with so that Eli will be strong enough to enjoy Pesach. The longer we push it off the closer to Pesach it is.

Hoping to only hear good news with Elimelech Ben Basya. Please keep him in mind in hopes that the blood counts will be good and that the week should go as good as possible with no side effects.

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