Future Planning

This eggplant is what I have future plans for. We are looking forward to eggplant parmigiana...mmmmmm.......I can taste it in my mind right now! Looking more forward to the real thing, though! Woody got up super early and walked 12 miles. He has done a bit of garden watering...it is still so hot and no rain in the forecast (that I have heard of). I got up and worked for a while on my photos. Then after lunch I went to the library and worked with a co-library worker for several hours. We checked books in and shelved them and then started processing some books. We managed to get 12 books ready for the shelves...that is a good thing...almost emptied another box. We still aren't totally settled into the newly renovated library. We are "patiently" waiting for some cabinets to be built so we can get things put away...but I guess if we empty a couple of boxes in the meanwhile that will be good! I came home to unpack a box that came in the mail here today...some of the items were Christmas presents. So we have gotten underway with our Christmas shopping. Woody left a few minutes ago for his Fresh Encounters class at church. I'm going to go downstairs and rearrange and clean out a kitchen drawer (one of those cooking utensil drawers that end up a tangled mess). A couple of things that came in that box today are to go in that drawer and I'm going to try to make room for them!

We got an email from one of Woody's Vanderbilt research nurses today. It's always good to touch base with her. She was checking on Woody and to tell us a funny story. Sometime recently she was talking to someone about a possible treatment at Vandy for melanoma and that person started telling her about someone he had talked to about melanoma treatments. He mentioned that person had ended up going all the way to NIH for IL-2 and that that person hadn't known about his stage-4 melanoma till after a really bad bicycle accident. She told this fellow that she knew who he was talking about! Woody has talked to quite a few people about his melanoma treatments due to others recommending that a friend or family member talk with Woody...plus I hope that the blog is a way for some to read and find out about the path that Woody chose to follow...AND of course it is good for other melanoma patients to see positive outcomes of treatments such as Woody has seen to this point. Anyway, Woody's story has returned to Vanderbilt...glad that it is his story and not Woody!