Brief update

The news from Lori's latest MRI and CT scan was not good.

In brief she has two new, very small, but definite brain lesions. 

This means the current chemo is no longer working.

What makes metastatic triple negative breast cancer (tnbc) so wicked is that it seems to outsmart the chemo's that should kill it. 

It mutates, it evolves, it gets around the protective chemo and does its work.

We now must look for another avenue to treat her.

She will go through this next chemo cycle for three weeks and then she is out of this clinical trial.

She has no evidence of any other metastatic activity anywhere else in her body after two years of fighting this disease. That is a blessing. 

There is a vaccine trial in Dallas that shows promise. That is our next option.

We have three weeks to figure something out.

I was going to go back to Texas in a day or two. 

I now think I may stay in Maryland until at least the first of March. 

The project is going great.

Today the team did a partial harvest from pond 12.               

                                     

Tomorrow they harvest the whole pond. Should pull about 1200-1400 pounds of beautiful head on jumbo shrimp from that little R& D pond. 

Probably will harvest a small pond each month for the next few months.

We should close on the land at Copano Bay in the next 48 hours.

That is where we will expand our production to ten million pounds of jumbo shrimp annually over the next few years. 

I am tired, actually exhausted. The last 48 hours at NIH have been draining.

There is snow on the ground outside here in North Potomac, Maryland. With the moonlight it is surreally beautiful.

It has been said by poets and philosophers that "life may be but a dream". 

That may be. 

But what Lori is experiencing and fighting, is a nightmare, and one from which we seem not to be able to wake up.