Why did the turkey cross the road?

Woody got up early this morning and went to work for four hours. He did walk a bit at work today, as he had some business to take care of in another building on the base. He came home and picked me up and we headed to Vanderbilt around 10:20am and we pulled back into our driveway around 5:50pm. Not a short day, but not as long as some have been.

We had a fairly uneventful day at Vanderbilt on Day 22 of Cycle 2 of Woody's double blind chemo drug study. His potassium is still slightly low and his red blood count is slightly low...but his white blood count continues to be in the normal range. All appointments happened on schedule...the main hold-up was for the CT scan...he has to drink some contrast and then wait for at least 45 min. They called him in right at the 45 min. time and he was back from the scan in less than 15 min.

We did do some questioning of the research nurse today as to what would determine if he would continue with the drug study. He will probably continue the study, if his CT scan shows no further progression of his melanoma or if it shows that the melanoma places are getting smaller. If his melanoma has progressed some, then they will evaluate the percentage that it has increased since the scan at the start of the study...there is a certain criteria in the study that says at what percentage the study has to stop. So...time will tell.

Dr Sosman and the research nurse will evaluate the scan in a couple of days and then call us at the end of the week to tell us if Woody will continue with the study or not. Whether he continues the study or not, we will be going to Vanderbilt next Tuesday (Labor Day is Monday so no appointments that day.). If he continues, he will start taking the chemo and the study drugs that day and be given another daily diary sheet to fill out. With cycle 3, Woody will only have to go to Vanderbilt once a month...not once a week. If he doesn't continue, then they will do the final paper work for the drug study with Woody on Tuesday.

Here's the answer to tonight's title question: (This picture is clickable so you can see the reason better!) (If you click on the top picture and scroll over to the right, you will see another turkey by the metal post...so that makes a total or 17 or 18 that we could see in this rafter of turkeys.) (I'm sorry that I didn't have my telephoto lens on...but that is how it goes when I'm taking pictures...seems like I never have the right lens on for the picture that I want to take...a memory of my father!)