Chapter 22

The only thing that kept me sane over the past week was staying at Jake’s. My landlord had the front door rekeyed by Thursday, but Jake didn’t want me to leave until after work on Friday. I was more than happy to stay. I enjoyed the nightly stress relief and I had really needed it.  The team had been working until nearly nine most nights trying to finalize for our meeting with Dr. Ochoa.

On Wednesday, the team had a good breakthrough. Stephanie and Brian had been working in the lab and noticed a reaction in one of our many trials.  After Martin, Katrina, and I compared that to the research we had been reviewing, we were able to actually narrow down our questions for Dr. Ochoa. This was a great step, as I had felt like we had stalled in our questions. If this was going to be viable pediatric cancer treatment research study, we needed to have a clear focus.

Jake had been equally busy this past week. I knew that he was spending a lot of time trying t