Home At Last

I'm still in mourning over my stolen laptop. It looks like there is no hope of finding it. So I bit the bullet and bought a new MacBook Air. It is cute and light. I'm loving it so far but I'm desperately missing my old images on my previous Mac. It seems like such a daunting task trying to upload everything again so for now I'm just moving on.

Onto the good stuff...

Aaron is home!

He was up at Stanford Hospital for 10 days.

Definitely one of his shorter stays which was such a blessing.

He's feeling great!

Back to his upbeat, humorous self.

I went up on Friday night when we were told he could get out on Sunday and stayed the weekend with him.

We did our usual escape between meds and treatments for some dinner dates, shopping, and dessert runs.

The Lindquist's met us on Sunday again for lunch and shopping in between settling in their new home.

It of course was nothing short of fun when the four of us were together.

We managed to get samples everywhere we went.

Teavanna, See's Candy, cup of espresso at Williams Sonoma.

It was wonderful!

On Sunday evening Aaron and I wanted to linger in the cool weather a little longer as it was 108 in Fresno, yikes!

So we stopped and had dinner in Santa Cruz. 

It was a fun little weekend away even though we were stuck in the hospital, having my husband back and healthy makes it all worth it!

{check out the sun spot on Aaron's head. Looks like a bald spot! We got a good kick out of it.}

{goobers}

A sincere thank you for all the texts, calls, and especially prayers. We love and appreciate your concern. Thank God for his faithfulness to pull us through in these seasons. xoxo

Aaron & Melissa 

Let the summer fun begin!

Good News and Bad News

So the good news, actually GREAT news, is that the hubs is much better and was able to come home! His lung function has improved and he's back to real life. Hooray! I was really missing him at home. I spent the weekend up in Palo Alto with him and we enjoyed the cool weather. One night we escaped the hospital to indulge in my favorite treat, Sprinkles.More pictures to come...but this leads me to my bad news, my laptop was STOLEN! I know I'm devastated! Mostly because I'm not very good at backing up my pictures. Kicking myself for that one. I'm praying I can some how try and retrieve most of my pictures from different sites. If you have any picture retrieving advice let me know. Thank goodness for this blog, now I must search for the three years before that!

Making the Best Of It

Aaron hadn't been feeling 100% this week and after coughing up some blood and significant weight loss, he knew it was time to head up to Stanford. I wasn't ready (or should I say my heart wasn't, but it never is) to go into the hospital, but we knew it was time on Friday. On our drive up we stopped at Casa de Fruita for lunch and a little time to laugh and enjoy each other's company before checking in. His room was waiting when we arrived, so they did some initial assessments, and did his first set of treatments, then we snuck off to the Stanford Mall for a quick Italian dinner. I spent the night in the room with him for the first time. It was a sleepless night to say the least. My sweet husband endures so much. Hours on IV anti-biotics, nurses poking him, and breathing treatments. But we made the best of it with some quality time together and walks to the mall.

 On Saturday our best friends Dr. Ben Lindquist, and his beautiful wife graced us with their presence for lunch. Ben is starting his residency at Stanford and we couldn't be more excited for our friends and our new second home! Thank you for helping us forget about being sick and making us laugh.

Update: Aaron's hemoptysis (coughing up blood) has subsided and they are slowly adding more intense treatments to get him back on track. Of course we love and appreciate your prayers, and are so thankful he is improving quickly. Until next time....