9/3/15

The last 2 weeks haven’t exactly been easy for Eli but as always he pulls thru with a smile and a “I will be ok”. We haven’t missed a day of being in the hospital since Monday 11 days ago. Last week was chemo Mon-Fri and then Eli was in the ER over the weekend needing platelets for a nose bleed that wouldn’t stop bleeding. Since last Monday Eli has had 9 transfusions which obviously isn’t a very good sign but we are holding out hope that it’s chemo related as we wait and pray for the scans and their results.

Today we were in CHLA for what was a planned 5-10 minute visit to get a MIBG injection. Once here I figured let’s save time for Friday and have his labs checked so if he does need further transfusions it will be ready when we arrive instead of waiting 2-3 hours for results and for them to bring the blood before the 2-3 hours actual transfusion time. It turned out that it was “min hashamayim” that I did this as soon after getting home CHLA called that Eli needs to get right back for both blood and platelet transfusions as they were both dangerously low. They were low to the point that they aren’t even rechecking it on Friday and just repeating and giving both transfusions again to compensate IYH for the low counts.
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Please daven that we should be zoche to a miracle on Friday with the scans and that IYH this is all a side effect of the chemo and nothing more. Elimelech Ben Basya bsoch shaar choley Yisroel.‎

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