Beautiful End to a Long Day!

As I went to close the curtains in our room this evening...the above sight bade me to find my camera...a beautiful sunset to end our day!

We got to NIH at 7:30am and left around 2pm. Woody headed first to the lab and he was called back rather quickly and it didn't take too long for them to collect 11 vials of blood. Then we headed upstairs to see if any of "his" nurses were around (when he left last year they told him to check back in...they like to know how their patients are doing months after their treatments.). We saw a couple of them, but they were busy so we found a quiet place with comfy chairs and Woody worked on a crossword puzzle and I read. As we were heading to his next appointment, we walked back through the cancer unit and again all his nurses were busy. We got him signed in a wee bit early for him to get his CT contrast and amazingly enough they gave him his contrast to drink a bit early. This time they changed what he had to drink...it was clear and was "water" flavor...supposedly...but with a bit of an after taste according to the person who gave it to him. He had to drink 1/3 of it then wait 10 minutes and drink another 1/3 and then take the rest of it back with him and drink it just prior to his CT scans. That all went very quickly and he was finished with the CT 10 min. after his appointment time. So at that point he was very much on schedule...as a matter of fact a bit ahead of schedule. We sat in that waiting room and read for a while and then headed to the MRI waiting room...at 11am for his 11:30am appointment. They told us that we could go eat as they were very behind...but Woody didn't want to parade around in his paper outfit so we sat there. They finally took him back around 12:15pm and he came out at 1:40pm! That was a long wait. We did stop and got a bowl of soup at Au Bon Pain...then we headed out. We stopped at our favorite speciality grocery store and bought a salad dressing that Woody has become very fond of...a raspberry zero calorie dressing. Then we headed to Giant Foods and bought some whole wheat pasta that we can't get at home. Then we went back to the hotel. I ended up taking a nap...the day had tired me out. But Woody said that it hadn't worn him out as about all he had done was lie around! Woody invited me out for dinner...so after my nap we headed out again. We went to a little Italian restaurant, Geppetto's...real wooden puppets adorned a glass display case on one wall. We both enjoyed our dinner. We are now back at the hotel settling in for the night. We'll get up in the morning and pack up and head over to NIH. Tomorrow we go to the voucher office and then wait around till the docs show up after lunch for our clinic time with them. As soon as we see them, we will head out toward Tullahoma. So tomorrow night...the good Lord willin' I'll be blogging somewhere between MD and Tullahoma.