9/14/13

Bli ayin hora there is good news today. After a very rough 2 days Elis fever is IYH gone for good and he is off both blood pressure IVs. They were also able to remove the machine they had up his right arm artery to check his blood pressure constantly which was very painful and uncomfortable the whole time for Eli. The cultures are also showing what the DRs feel that they are getting the upper hand on the infection.

Eli is currently still in the ICU and will remain there tonight for observation to make sure he stays stable on the fever and blood pressure monitors. They hope to move Eli to a regular room sometime Monday. They will then decide how much longer they feel he needs to stay in the hospital. The hard part now is that the antibiotics has been harsh on Elis stomach and even though he hasn’t eaten or gotten TPN since coming to the hospital he is having extreme diarrhea 2-3X an hour. BH he is back as of tonight on TPN and hopefully it will help settle things and get Elis weight back on track.

Hoping to continue only having good news but as always please keep Elimelech Ben Basya in all your tefilos.

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