3/2/13

GUT VOCH. Hopefully after a VERY rough last few days this week will be better. The sores and pain that Eli is going thru since Wed is hard to believe or see. He hasn’t been able to eat as there are basically small painful open wounds on his tongue and throat all as a result of the chemo. He is extremely weak as a result and has lost a significant amount of weight. He has been on Codine for the last few days to try to relieve some of the pain and it does help but not while he tries to eat.

As shabos was ending he forced himself thru all his pain to eat and he succeeded with some of it but it wasn’t fun. On Motzei Shabos he had the honor of holding up the prizes at the motzei shabos learning program in bais yehuda and was very proud to be there for the first time in nearly 3 months. After he said “daddy I want pizza” so I gladly took him and he even succeeded in having a few small bites without any major pains. Hopefully he will wake up on Sunday morning in a better mood and no pain so that he can finally start eating and getting some food in his system and gaining some much needed weight.

Elimelech Ben Basya needs our tefilos so we can stop seeing him going thru so much pain in hopes of seeing him get strong again and like Lipa Shmeltzer sent Eli in a video “Eli we think about you day and night we love you and can’t wait to rock at your wedding have a refua shelyama” AMEN

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