(photo W Hayes)
I am talking about Cris our esteemed representative in Buenos Aires. She works in clinical research and I just wanted to let you know this since vaccines and clinical trials are so much in the news lately. The last few days Moderna announced their vaccine reaching a certain level of completion. This was on the heels of Pfizer’s vaccine. So great that this progress is being made. And our Cris works for PPD which is a partner of Moderna and handling the clinical trials (my best guess at an explanation). I Googled and Googled and all the info refers to PPD with just the abbreviation, no explanation.
“PPD which is the company I work for, has 1200 employees working in the Moderna vaccine clinical trial… a huge number of my work colleagues working really hard to get it done… We are all hopeful and while this is not the trial I work on, I am proud of the work we do…“ Cris.
Our Cris, there as part of that big picture. Thank you Cris! And she is invaluable to us at Caminoheads also. Apparently we were all supposed to get together here at Caminoheads and here we are.
So, it’s mid November and the Covid clock keeps ticking. We in the States are now facing big new rules on gatherings to mute down the holiday partying. Yea, 2020 hitting a flaming crescendo with all it’s special fun. So the vaccine will be welcomed but that will be for 2021.
And here the leaves are quickly being removed from their trees or the trees are being separated from their leaves. The winds are here. It looks like it is snowing out there and the electric lights are blinking inside.
So, off to Swedish Hospital for a biopsy in the morning and an interpretation of that by Nugget in the afternoon. Never ending fun I’ll tell ya. So, prayers for Felipé please. And as long as you are praying, one for Janet who does energy work with me. She suffered a fall yesterday and she is recovering. Thanks all.
prayers and loves, Felipé.
Swedish Hospital? Sweden is a long way to go for a biopsy!by coincidence a friend of mine is stuck in Sweden right now.he was originally going to get the overnight train to Kiruna but caught coronavirus and got stuck in Stockholm but has followed my recommendation to visit the Royal Durtgartten National City Park in Stockholm now he’s clear of the virus but obviously no real substitute for the ice hotel 200km north of the Artic Circle which was his Plan A . I passed that way about 20 years ago,local train from Narvik, Norway to Kiruna then overnight sleeping train to Stockholm.good luck with the biopsy I had one from my arm 2 weeks ago plus bloods.
Kevan ~ We have a Swedish Hospital here in Seattle that has been here forever. Seattle lots of Scandinavians from way back. Must be similar climate and look to the Old Country. Anyway, tell us about the ice hotel. I’m intrigued. Felipé.
The Ice Hotel is near Kiruna and every winter they construct a hotel made of ice and guests stay in it but it’s rather pricey considering that your room won’t get over 0c! As spring comes to the Artic the hotel melts and a new one is built the following year.Kiruna itself is on the railway which runs from Narvik to Stockholm and has the distinction of being the most northerly AC overhead electric railway on Earth.there’s one to Murmansk in Russia but it’s diesel hauled.i have a feeling that the Swedes will have found Seattle to be a subtropical,if very wet, paradise compared with Sweden.when I was in Stockholm the harbour was frozen over with thick ice which,if you where brave,you could walk on.some years before that I was in Turku in Finland and I walked across a frozen river,with hindsight a pretty stupid thing to do.i’d say that the climate in southern parts of Sweden and Finland is sort of like say Chicago very very cold winters but hot summers.The Norwegian coast is a different kettle of fish because of the warm Gulf Stream mild damp winters but cool summers so I reckon Bergen or Stavanger would be more akin to Seattle.
Kevan ~ thanks for the info. Yes, the western coast of Norway seems a match to Seattle. But we have our Swede’s and Fin’s too. I will have to Google the Ice Hotel, crazy one. Felipé.x
Thank you, Phil!!!
Yesterday, a friend of mine in a zoom group that we have been holding during this pandemic, asked “where do we find hope?” And I thought of this neighborhood… on this place where each of us bring what we have and can offer, and joined to what the other one brings, we build something more meaningful, and we feed the other’s hopes…
Love to be your neighbor and I love to be your friend!
Cris
Cris ~ that is great that you came here for your answer. Maybe we are a Hope Machine! That is the feeling I was getting when we were blogging about the hospital ships earlier this year. Yea. And thanks as always. Felipé.x
There’s a place in China called Harbin which I think is up by the Mongolian border where they build a whole town full of ice sculptures but they melt come spring.it gets very cold there maybe as low as -45c …. that’s brutally cold.weather is facinating look at the difference in winter between Seattle and St John’s, Newfoundland which it roughly lines up with, Seattle being 2 degrees further north but then it’d line up with some obscure village nobody has ever heard of to get it more precise!that east coast of North America gets terrible snow and ice stretching right down to Washington DC which is a similar latitude to San Francisco or Tanjiers whereas the west coast and western europe get mild damp winters on the whole although they may not seem mild when your are living through them!clear here so I’m off down the beach to see the close conjunction twixt the infant crescent Moon, Jupiter and Saturn.
Kevan ~ thank you. Yes, we are pretty far north for the wintertime treatment we get. Once in a while the system breaks down and our pipes all freeze. Felipé.