4/13/15

This round of chemo ended on Friday which was YT and we were in CHLA for a few short hours and BH all worked out ok. Came in pajamas and left in a suit directly to a kidsuh and YT seudah. Eli felt great and kept everyone entertained and smiling. Overall YT was beautiful and enjoyable everywhere we went and BH Eli was included and up to everything we did the entire time.
‎
Sunday we celebrated an event Eli has been looking forward to for a long time his sister Sori Bas Mitzva together as a family in our home with many of our relatives. Monday morning Eli had his labs drawn and then was off to Shilos for steak lunch where he ate a large amount as he has been doing lately.
‎
Unfortunately late in the evening tonight Eli wasn’t himself and quickly spiked a 102 fever and that was the end of a good long run of not having to visit the ER. We got there at about 10PM and they have drawn labs which we already know are low and will require a blood and platelet transfusion. Hopefully it’s just a side effect of last week’s chemo and IYH all the cultures will come back negative.
‎
Please as always continue having Elimelech Ben Basya in all your tefilos. Hope to have a better update with good results on Tuesday. ‎

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