6/16/13

What a difference a day can make Bli Ayin Hora. Eli woke up in a good mood and there was good reason for it he BH started getting his blood counts back. Elis mood only got better as the day went on. He finally had some strength wasn’t in much pain as he was able to talk and he had a lot to say. Even the doctors were pleasantly surprised with all he had to say and ask for and we did all we could to help him along. His platelets were again pretty low so he received a platelet transfusion again but BH that went smoothly and helped him feel and look better.

Eli spent the day with his bubby and then Bassy and late in the day asked to see Sori and Ari who he hasn’t physically seen in 2 weeks!!! Everyone was very happy when they finally arrived at 6PM for a short visit. And although Eli asked for food today when it arrived he realized he isn’t quite up to that yet but IYH in the next day or 2 hopefully that to will change. The hope now is that all should continue only going in the right direction and every morning when they draw his blood we hope to continue seeing a steady and quick rise in his blood counts. The sooner his blood counts go up and stay up and Eli being able to eat and hold down food is the sooner IYH Eli will be able to go home.

We hope to continue seeing Elimelech Ben Basya regain his blood counts, his strength, his cute persoanlity and most of all seeing him have a refua shelayma BKAROV. Days like today only happen with everyones tefilos and help and we need that to continue to help Elis get thru these tough times.

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