tune in next season

I was set to truck to Georgetown U. for Jeff's MRI in prep for his first dose of V490, aka Merck's new Phase I Alzheimer's vaccine. I was determined to try heading south on Wisconsin Avenue. Downtown D.C., even not at rush hour, is harrying, and there must be a better way.

But it will wait until November. Evidently, a bungled communication between Merck and the testing sites (ours, of course, being GU,) has resulted in there not being a slot for Jeff in the "first dosing." In November though, we will be choosing between "second dosing" of the Merck, and Phase II of a Wyeth vaccine which has already done the rounds in Europe. I am inclined toward the Wyeth. If you don't have to be one of the first 70 humans to serve as test subject, then why be one?

So off we'll go again--in the Fall I guess. Yikes. There'll be the whole school schedule parameter problem. Maybe Gabe will have to take a bike, and ride home from his carpool dropoff point...