6/17/13

Things continue to be moving pretty quickly in the right direction now BH and we hope that’s how it will always be. Bli Ayin Hora all of Elis blood counts have drastically gone up and the doctors are very pleased with the numbers and how Eli looks and feels. After not having any drinks aside from a drop of water to wash down the medications for almost 2 weeks Eli had a few cups of water today. The hope and goal is to try to get him to continue drinking and even trying real food as soon as he is up for it. The sooner he eats and beezrat hashem holds it down, and has steady good blood counts is the sooner Eli goes home.

There isn’t anything much on the schedule other then making sure and helping Eli stay comfortable and on pace with drinking and medication. He keeps himself busy with the many games he has and especially the new games he just got today and a few days ago from his uncle and from a good friend and with all the gift cards and ITunes cards he has. Keeping Eli happy and healthy is our full time goal now.

Elimelech Ben Basya has been in CHLA for about 18+ days now and we hope that things continue staying in the right direction so that Eli will be able to finally leave and get some fresh air that he hasn’t had this entire time. Please as always continue to daven on his behalf as well as all cholim.

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