6/19/13

Eli continues to improve and at the same time bli ayin hora shock the doctors with his blood counts. They have shot up considerably and beezrat hashem will stay that way. His platelet count has been a slight problem which is very normal and expected and he will probably require another platelet transfusion in the morning. Late in the day today Eli ran a low fever and so far one dose of tylenol has done the trick hopefully the culture they took will come back negative. While he still hasn’t eaten yet we are reminded that Eli generally for whatever reason after being in the hospital for a few days has always refused food until he is home.

Thursday will be a full 3 weeks of being in CHLA and being that Eli is in a special room that is extremely sterile and they don’t allow him out of the room he is definitely getting very antsy to put it mildly and is very much looking forward to some fresh air, going home and a normal nights sleep without any beeping from the IV or nurses checking and poking him hourly. Eli is a real champ and has taken this entire ordeal BH very well and we do whatever we can to keep his mood positive and happy. We hope to see things continue to move only in the right direction.

Elimelech Ben Basya continues to need our tefilos and will for quite some time and we ask as always to please keep him in mind.

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