Another call from Vanderbilt

This morning the research nurse called with further instructions for Woody to follow Monday. He isn't to eat anything 2 hours before his appointment and he can only drink water. She called to say that she was phoning in a prescription for a nausea medication to our pharmacy. He is to bring that medication with him and is to take it as soon as he gets to Vanderbilt. I'm sure that all the above instructions are to help keep him from getting nauseated when he takes the chemo drug. She also suggested that we bring some food (she said a little picnic!) as the appointment would last well beyond lunch time. The research nurse keeps saying that she doesn't expect this chemo regimen to change Woody's routine much...and that he should be able to continue to work while he is taking part in the study. She says that the nausea med should keep him from feeling/being sick. Please be in prayer that this will be as easy on Woody as possible and for God to give him strength to withstand whatever is ahead of him with this drug study...and that if it is God's will that this could be the answer to stopping the progression of the melanoma.

I called the pharmacy to make sure that the prescription had been phoned in and that it had been filled. We will pick it up tomorrow as we will have to leave before the drugstore opens on Monday. We have a big note on the kitchen table to remind us! Plus I have asked Erin to remind us. So maybe between the note and Erin we will remember!

We had visitors just as we were finishing supper this evening. Nathan and all his family came over...little Elijah's first visit to Grammy and Goosey's! Then he got to be rocked on the front porch for a little while. We have quite a few little "cherry snitchers" in that group...they helped us eat our dessert of fresh cherries!

Woody got up at his usual time and headed off to work. He walked at lunch. He and Erin went to the library after he got home. I think that he feels better this evening than he did last evening.