Beautiful end to our day!

Busy day! We got up and leisurely got all packed up and then headed over to NIH on the hotel 9:30am shuttle. We were at building 10 at NIH by 9:45. Our first stop was at the voucher desk. I filled out the paper that is needed to be turned in with our hotel bill. We were told that we could pick up our money after 11:30am. Next we headed to the car and put our suitcase and the laptop and a couple of other things into the car. Then we went back and found a comfortable spot to read till it was time to eat lunch. We decided that we wanted soup at Au Bon Pane. They didn't get the soup out till almost 11:30am. Woody got split pea with ham and I got their wonderful New England clam chowder. After we ate we headed up to the clinic on the third floor. Woody signed in and then got his blood pressure taken...his blood pressure was great! While he was back getting weighed, etc. one of the nurses came out and told me that they were starting clinic early today and that once Dr. Rosatti got back she would be calling us back. Sounded great! We were called back early...but so were a lot of others and it took quite a while for Dr. Rosatti to come in. She came in to see us shortly after 1pm (our appointment time) and talked to Woody for a bit, let him ask questions and listened to his heart and poked around on him a bit. Then she told us that the head doctor of the team would be in to see us...well...that seemed to take forever! While waiting for her, I went out to have them start to make our next appointments...two months from now! The appointment maker couldn't get through to make the appointments so she suggested that she just email them to us. Sounded good to me so I went back into the room with Woody and waited and waited and...Finally the doctor and a couple of others came in and only talked for a few minutes. As we headed out of the clinic, I checked to see if our appointments for March had been made and, they had, so we picked up that paper. Then Woody headed to the cashier to get our reimbursement for this trip and I headed to the pharmacy to get Woody's name turned in so we could start waiting to pick up his antibiotic prescription. We were heading away from NIH around 2:45pm...fifteen minutes prior to the start of the D.C. rush hour. Which was perfect timing as we were off the Capital Beltway by 3pm. We stopped for the night in Staunton (pronounced Stanton), VA around 5:30pm. So we are ensconced in our hotel for the night. We drove around 150 miles after leaving Bethesda, MD. As you can see in tonight's blog picture, the sunset was absolutely beautiful this evening...quite a show in the sky!

Oh, I guess you would like to know the results of Woody's MRI and CT scans. Dr. Rosatti said that tumors they were measuring had remained the same size and that no new tumors were seen. We will take that...stopped growth of the old tumors and no new ones...very good news!
Due to the stability of his condition we don't have to go back for two months. The doctor said that it was better to wait two months to do scans when tumors are showing so little change, as they can better see/measure changes when there is a longer period of time between scans. This report is what both Woody and I expected...little or no change.

Well, Woody is snoozing, I'm blogging, the TV is on as background noise...guess we are settled in for the night! The good Lord willin' I'll be blogging from home tomorrow.