5/16/13

BH we had a beautiful relaxed YT together as a family. We spent time together played games, went to shul, took walks and a then a very long walk today to Pico to be with my parents for the seudah and the rest of the day. Bli ayin hora Eli hasn’t been this strong and in such high spirits in a very long time and it was really good to see that after all he is and has gone thru he still has his cuteness and sense of humor. The sad part is that we get another reality check on Friday early morning as Eli will be going to CHLA for a hopefully very minor surgery to check his bone marrow. We hope it will be as quick and painless as can be and that this test will follow the pattern of the last few with only good results.

We need to be in the hospital at 7:30AM and haven’t exactly been told when we should plan on being able to go home but IYH it should be before Shabos. Hopefully things will so smoothly so that we can once again have a relaxed shabos together and continue to help Eli regain his strength and spirits as we help him along this long road to IYH a refua shelayma. Next we will have some more tests and scans all needing to be done prior to the planned stem cell transplant scheduled IYH for the 27th which will require Eli to be in the hospital for about a month straight.

Please continue to have Elimelech Ben Basya in mind in all your tefilos, kabalos etc as we do whatever it takes to get to the ultimate goal of being IYH disease free and back to himself. These next few days and weeks will be very trying for him and he can use all the chizuk possible.

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