Hey there,
Long time, no post! It's been a wonderful summer filled with relaxing moments with family and friends. Stu has been very healthy and as always remains super positive. Stu celebrated his 50th birthday with Ken and some close friends. It was awesome! My 50th was celebrated over and over again! I really think 50 is the new 30!!
Stella completed an internship at a biotech company that a great friend connected her too. She had such a great time learning new skills and meeting some really amazing people! Her boss was our friend and she really liked learning from him.
Jaida attended summer school, camps and had lots of playdates.
Stu and I both have friends from work, from Amsterdam and all over constantly integrating us into their plans, from stopping for lunch from the east bay, to dinners, to hosting my birthday... so many friends and so much love! Thank you.
Now Stella is back in high school as a cheerleader and caption of the JV cheer team. She spends her weekends slumber partying with friends and enjoying teenage life!
Jaida is happily adjusting to middle school. She has made some really awesome new friends, and she still really enjoys those friendships she's made from elementary school. She is enjoying running, playing soccer and the many girl scouting events she gets to take part in.
Stu and I have traveled to LA almost every week for a clinical trial that Stu is in since November (new trial started April 2019 after the last surgery). We just go for the day, which isn't such a big deal. We've run into a few friends on our flights out of San Jose, which is such a bonus!! We like our doctor and the staff at Providence very much.
Huge thanks to Grandma Nat for driving Jaida back and forth to school while we travel.
Stu has been dealing with inflammation since the November 2018 trial. The doctors think that he is getting so much inflammation due to the clinical trial actually doing its job. But it's becoming too much once again and so Stu will need to head back into surgery on Oct 29th. We hope that the surgery will allow him to talk more and relieve the symptoms.
We have our family and friends both new and existing jumping in to offer help make Halloween week special to the girls. Thank you!!! A huge thanks to my sister Lynda for once again taking vacation time and staying with our girls so that they can just be at home while we are away. She has been amazing! Everyone has!! Shout out to Ken for always stopping by with a cute niece or nephew to make everyone's world better (they are adorable!!), for being an awesome uncle to the girls!! He's a great brother!!
We'll let you know when Stu is up for visitors via this blog. We will be in LA thru 10/28 through 11/3 if anyone wants to reach out to me to set up visits.
Happy Fall everyone.
Sandi & Stu
