I finally had a chance to read the site, and I'm so grateful for all your support. It truly warms my heart to know Dea has such a wonderful network of well wishers. We'll be periodically reading all of your posts to Dea. I know this will warm his heart and keep him motivated. Amazingly, his great attitude and spirit has helped me through this more than he knows.

Our girls - what can I say! Dea and I are so lucky and blessed with three great kids (should say young ladies). They have been our constant source of pride and motivation to do better.

I'll leave medical updates to the girls, but would like to say that here at Bergan we have awesome nurses and doctors looking after Dea and answering all of our questions.

Sophie has deferred one quarter of her PhD program at UC Davis. It has been so wonderful to have her with us, especially helping me out whenever and whatever. Sean came out to visit Dad and just returned to Davis. It was hard for him, and hard for us since we did not want to see him go (for entirely selfish reasons).

Dannielle just started her first lab rotation for her PhD at UC San Diego. Of course, not being here is very frustrating for her, but knowing that we are not deviating the girls education too much helps lesson the stress level for Dea. She has been helping us as much as she can, especially by looking up medical terms and researching conditions on the Internet since we do not have access while in the hospital.

Charlene just received her itinerary to Japan (leaving October 2nd). Her departure draws near, and since she is spending all of her time with Dad in the hospital, her packing method will be most interesting. Keeping Char's study abroad program as planned will also lessen Dea's stress level. He was quite disappointed when Char was considering canceling her program.

I'm having a sort of leave at the moment from my work, and like Dea, I have great support from my work which enables us to concentrate on getting Dea better and being by his side.

All of you, thank you so much for all your concerns, prayers, and support. As you can see, we are all good and will be coming out of these bumps on the road very soon!