6/12/13

Beezrat hashem the night and tomorrow will be better then today was. Elis blood counts have hit the bottom and he is extremely weak and very nauseous. We don’t know if he is in any real pain because Eli never complains and isn’t saying if he has any pain but as a precaution they have him on pain medication thru his IV. The pain meds cause him to be very drowsy so he slept a good portion of the day. Today’s nurse tried spoiling last nights celebration by telling Eli that they made a mistake and the medication he was receiving for his infection had one more day. We told the staff clearly that we will not break the trust Eli has in us and declined taking it. Its hard enough being here for Eli we will do whatever it is to make it easier not harder.

Being that his counts are at zero they now will try to help his system rebuild and starting today already he needed a blood transfusion which BH he has a blood bank arranged by Bikur Cholim so that he’s getting “yidishe” blood. He will need a few more transfusions and probably platelets also in the next few days. Elis main nurse will be here on Thursday and she knows and understands better then most of the other nurses what and when Eli likes and needs. I’m not complaining about any of the other nurses all have been extremely nice and caring and seem to be on a much higher level then the nurses we had in other areas of the hospital.

IYH the side effects will disappear overnight or at least hopefully subside so that Elimelech Ben Basya has a much better Thursday and an easier next few weeks that he will be in CHLA.

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