6/4/13

Today was relatively quiet with no treatments on schedule it was a day to let Elis body have a short rest before they give him what we hope is IYH his last dose of chemo. He didn’t quite feel as well as he did the last few days and did get quite nauseous a few times but for the most part he had an ok day. Eli received a visit today from his rebbi Rabbi Jacobs who went completely out of his way as always for Eli and laminated each page of the Chumash he is up to (hospital rules all paper must be laminated in BMT) as always thank you so much rebbi. Closer to the end of the day Eli became extremely exhausted most probably because he hasn’t had any really full night of sleep since he got here and of course also because of all the treatments he is getting.

In this special transplant unit that Eli is in he is assigned a few nurses that become “his team” and whenever they are here will be assigned to him so that they somewhat have an idea of what he likes and what he doesn’t. So far we only have one nurse who is on that team who is extremely caring and nice. Tonights nurse needed a lesson on how to be quiet when someone is sleeping and I think she now understands. Eli did not eat much today and the little he did unfortunately didn’t stay down very long. But this evening he decided he wanted grill cheese so I ran up the street to the home of the local Chabad shliach Rabbi Korf who as always had an open door for us and BH Eli ate that and held it down.

Tomorrow we hope continues to be somewhat easy and quiet for Elimelech Ben Basya as bli ayin hora things have been for the most part better then we prepared ourselves for and hope that it stays this way.

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