{"id":4171,"date":"2026-10-28T01:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:43:01","slug":"suleika-jaouad-jon-batiste-share-a-loving-hospital-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"Suleika Jaouad & Jon Batiste Share a Loving Hospital Update"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tJon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad<\/a>\u2019s latest update is a small glimpse of love in the middle of a very difficult stretch.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a joint Instagram post<\/a> shared Oct. 25, the couple cuddled up for two hospital selfies. In one photo, Jaouad, wrapped in a blanket, rested her chin on her husband\u2019s shoulder; in another, she kissed his cheek. \u201cThe kids doing alright today, and still madly in love,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe post comes nearly a month after The New York Times <\/em>best-selling author and journalist announced that she needs a third bone marrow transplant. Treatments that had been keeping her leukemia \u201cat bay,\u201d she explained, were \u201cno longer doing the trick.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\u2018I Have a Great Deal of Hope\u2019\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tJaouad shared the news via Instagram<\/a> on Sept. 28. \u201cI\u2019ve known another bone marrow transplant might be in my future. I was hoping the future was less in a hurry,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tJaouad\u2019s leukemia diagnosis came at 22, just as she was starting her life after college. Now 38, she\u2019s already undergone two bone marrow transplants.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have brilliant doctors I trust with my life,\u201d she wrote in the accompanying Substack post<\/a>. \u201cI have Jon, and my family, and the kind of friends who show up carrying games and flowers and inappropriate jokes. I have four dogs, two peacocks and fourteen chickens. I have a plan, and I have a great deal of hope.\u201d Then she added, \u201cI am also scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tJaouad has been open about how much medical research has already changed her treatment options.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve lived with leukemia for most of my adult life, long enough to watch the horizon of what is possible draw closer,\u201d she wrote. Some treatments she\u2019s received didn\u2019t exist when she was first diagnosed, while others once sounded experimental.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe and her family are also raising money to establish the Suleika Jaouad Fund for Leukemia & Stem Cell Transplant Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center<\/a>. The fund will support work led by her doctors, Eytan Stein and Sergio Giralt, on difficult-to-treat leukemias and more effective bone marrow transplants.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough their latest photo doesn\u2019t offer a medical update, it does show how she and Batiste, who married in 2022, are spending this time together. For now, they\u2019re making time for a kiss and a little humor in a hospital room \u2014 and we\u2019re wishing them more moments like this as treatment continues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n