6/1/13

I don’t know what got into Eli but I’m not complaining at all. He was in a great, happy and very spiritual mood the whole shabos. We davened Friday night together in his room and when we got to “Lcha dodi” Eli decided it was time to sing and dance it so we did exactly that I have no idea what the other patients, nurses or doctors thought we were doing but neither do I care. It was a real special 30 minutes that I won’t forget. Due to hospital rules I am unable to eat together with Eli in the room but they allowed for kidush and challa to be eaten together and then I watched Eli eat and when he fell asleep I went to the parents room to eat the seuda.

Once again Eli didn’t have the best night sleep but BH he fell back to sleep for a few extra hours. We once again davened together and played some games and used our imagination for other games. Our afternoon was broken up by some special guests and friends that took the very long hour and half walk each way special to come visit us. Eli as usual did the entertaining and gave them the updates. Bli ayin hora so far so good and we were lucky to have a relaxed enjoyable Shabos. Right after shabos even though Eli ate a very large amount over shabos he still wanted pizza so of course we had that brought right over and it wasn’t until 11:30PM that Eli finally decided time to go to sleep.

Hoping that this week and next few weeks fly by with the main thing being that everything should work out as planned. We should be zoche to see Elimelech Ben Basya finish the stem cell transplant with no pain or side effects beezrat hashem and have a refua shelayma. A GUT VOCH

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