Having June 1 fall on a Saturday allows me a very rare quiet moment to reflect on the past six months and what we have accomplished both personally and professionally.
On the professional front we have made substantial progress on the site at Copano Bay. The heavy dirt work, moving almost 700,000 cubic yards, is about halfway done.
Sculpting of the first 8 ponds for the first module is beginning. The rigid air structure that will cover the entire 8 ponds has been ordered and is being fabricated.
The office trailer is on site and should be ready for occupancy on or before June 7th.
On the international front I am very pleased to say we have executed all the agreements and and are now (as of 6/1) officially "in play internationally". I am very excited to be working with our new "partners" in the international arena.
I am preparing to do one of my first "around the world flights" for the first time in quite a few years.
I used to do them quite a bit back in my earlier incantation as a global investigator of animal and environmental abuse.
(see my blog "It All Started With Tarzan").
The past few years however, my travel has been more to one or two countries and then back to the USA.
On the personal front Lori is officially in the vaccine trial in Dallas. Her first preemptive chemo treatment is June 3rd and then she starts on the vaccine on June 6. We are all praying this works as it could give her a chance at long term remission.
Since Lori first learned she has "tnbc" which was diagnosed in February 2011 she has had multiple doctors tell her she needs to go home and prepare for the end. In fact, over 14 months ago she was told by a highly respected doctor at a nationally renown cancer treatment hospital that she had less than 6 months and she should not waste her energy pursuing cutting edge clinical trials.
I think the moral of that story is "Never listen to a doctor that gives you an expiration date".
We are very optimistic that this vaccine, with is designed to use the patient's own immune system to learn to recognize the MUC cells associated with cancer and then destroy them, will work for Lori.
(If it can penetrate the blood brain membrane it should work).
While we wait these next eight-nine weeks to see if that is indeed the case we are still researching and searching the globe for the next option. We will be prepared in any case.
I am not big on what I call "sappy inspirational" platitudes but the other day sitting at the Mary Crowley Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas I read this sign on their wall and it brought a smile to my face. So I am sharing it with you. It is actually very true.
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