When shaken to the core, we get priorities right Can we stick to it? Dr. Carolina Odman

On one side, the droplets took on more bluish hues, while on the other, they leaned towards reds and oranges. Though the rainbow was not as vivid as one might see in the sky, it was unmistakably there, a beautiful moment in miniature. I cannot open most bottles or jars, I always have to use a towel. At times, I need to walk with my arms stretched up straight over my head to reduce the swelling and I cannot tolerate heat or radiation (think sunshine or hovering a hand above a hot ;plate to feel if it’s hot already). Every edge feels like a knife, event the folds in my skin. I cannot make a fist anymore but I cannot straighten my fingers either.

Therapy

Maybe, unknowingly, she did form a music band after all, just with all of us friends and family in it. We have come here as a large family to bid farewell to our Carolina Johanna Ödman. When I look at this gathering, I see grief and deep loss.

Tolerance ranges

My grip is crazy light so I keep dropping things. Other things, I have no more fingerprints at all (they would come back if I stopped the treatment) and weird deep new lines in my fingers that feel like I’m bending cardboard under my skin. And I have a really good quality of life. To get to good temperatures when it’s scorching hot, I go to air conditioned places like the gym or the mall; there is always a new book that I’d love to dig into.

She went to school at École primaire d’Aubonne, and then the Gymnase de Nyon. Inspired by her high school physics teacher, she decided to pursue a career in the sciences. She then became someone who herself would inspire young people across so many countries to pursue their dreams, and actively help them with it. I started therapy a few months before I got diagnosed actually. I was unwell and I was diagnosed with anxiety.

It seems scarcely believable that we have had someone like Carolina in our lives. Someone so talented yet so humble and willing to teach. Someone who would go out of her way to believe in you and support you so much that you CaroLune.org start believing in yourself. Someone who finds beauty and science in everything around her, and sees the two as intertwined.

Someone who cares deeply about other people’s suffering and forged her own way of helping. Someone who was truly at home and at peace everywhere, but had a special love for South Africa. Someone who loved her family fiercely, and wanted to help make a better world for her two sons, along with Kevin.

When it’s too bright, I have great sunglasses, and for once I really appreciate having invested in quality glasses far beyond the thrill of buying something fancy. When food is too spicy, I drink a glass of milk, and I love milk so that’s always nice. When I burn up, I love the feeling of putting my hands in cool water, or the cooling sensation of a nice lotion. It is always about perspective, I choose to focus on the pleasure of relief of discomforts, not on their onset.

She was at home while riding to a village in India on the back of a motorcycle holding the Earth ball for an astronomy workshop. She was at home dealing with the exigencies of carrying a telescope into Gaza to conduct a UNAWE program with Palestinian children. Carolina was unbelievably talented at everything she was interested in. And she was interested in almost everything.