{"id":81,"date":"2017-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforiainh\/2017\/07\/11\/sizzling-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:00:00","slug":"sizzling-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/2017\/07\/11\/sizzling-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizzling St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iain and I are back in St. Louis for his 6 month bronch and biopsy. &nbsp;He has done very well in the two months since getting back to Boulder. &nbsp;Iain has been making up for lost time with his gang of very close friends and has been making new pals. &nbsp;I have to say that I really admire his friends for sticking with him through thick and thin. &nbsp;At an age where friendships can be transient and capricious these boys have shown incredible loyalty and compassion, not just in the last six months but in the years as Iain&#8217;s health, energy and wellbeing declined.<\/p>\n<p>We retrieved Simon about a month ago from the clutches of the Prakash family who could not believe that one child could eat so much, even though they had experienced Olivia. &nbsp;The Prakash family had kept him loved, fed and with the help of the lovely staff at Blossom Hill Elementary allowed him to get best report card ever. &nbsp;John and I very grateful to the los Gatos school and extended friends and family for really welcoming Simon during this difficult time for an 11 year old separated from his parents.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia came home for a while and for a brief three days, the Hess family was together for the first time in six months. &nbsp;It was lovely.<\/p>\n<p>I will post the results of his bronch tomorrow. &nbsp;Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/231\/images\/Hess%20family.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain and I are back in St. Louis for his 6 month bronch and biopsy. &nbsp;He has done very well in the two months since getting back to Boulder. &nbsp;Iain has been making up for lost time with his gang of very close friends and has been making new pals. &nbsp;I have to say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}