Day 1, Cycle 2

Here's the first view that we get of Vanderbilt on 21st Ave...the buildings that are just above the close buildings. I wish that this picture was clickable...don't know why some can be enlarged and some can't. The tallest with writing says Vanderbilt.

Another long day at Vanderbilt. We left the house at 8:30am and pulled into our driveway at 6:50pm. We got to Vanderbilt around 10:45. The waiting room in the cancer facility was quite packed when we got there. It took a bit longer than usual for them to call Woody back for labs. I kept hearing receptionists explaining to patients checking in that it was Monday and that they were running behind. Woody got called back for his lab work around 11:45. Then we found a quiet place way at one end of the waiting room and we both read. Around 1:30 two of the research nurses (two today as one was being trained) brought paper work for Woody to fill out. They told us that Woody's lab results looked good and that they were getting the prescriptions for the chemo drugs to the pharmacy and the drugs should be ready by 3pm. So we waited some more. Then we were called back to the inner waiting room and waited some more. The research nurses brought the chemo drugs to Woody in the inner waiting room and he took today's dose at 4pm. He took four of the known chemo drug and four of the unknown drug...so "only" eight pills at a time for that dose. Before they could give all the pills to him they called him back to Dr. Sosman's exam room. He took the last of the pills after he got his blood pressure taken. Then Dr. Sosman came in and talked to Woody and examined him. After that the research nurses came back in and finished giving us our instructions and the diary card that he records when he takes his meds, etc. After they finished with us, we went back to the main waiting room to wait for five o'clock to roll around, as Woody had to have labs done an hour after he took his medicine. By the way...the big waiting room was close to empty at that time...we had our pick of seats! We were in the car and on the way home by 5:10pm.

We took the scenic route to Murfreesboro and then interstates the rest of the way to Vanderbilt and took interstates all the way to Manchester on the return home. Woody drove both ways today.

I feel that Dr. Sosman and the research nurses are pleased with how Woody is doing so far. Dr. Sosman said to expect about what happened the last time...that Woody won't feel all that great on the third or fourth day. His white count shouldn't change, if it does change, for a couple of weeks.