Tonight's photos show the street (21st Ave.) that we travel on as we approach Vanderbilt Medical Center. It is quite a quaint street...lots of interesting shops and eating establishments. I was all ready to take a picture of the pancake house as there is always a line out front...but no line today...so perhaps I will capture that the next time.
Woody's day went quite smoothly...but none the less it turned into a very long day. We left the house a little before 8am and didn't walk back into the house till 6:25pm. We got to Vanderbilt a bit early so that started things rolling right along. It didn't take long to have his labs done and his appointment with Dr. Sosman didn't take long. The main thing that we learned from Dr. Sosman is that the effects of Yervoy (ipilimumab) are cumulative and that side effects often don't start showing up till after the third infusion (today was #3). So I guess he/we are supposed to be more watchful for side effects this time. He also told us that Woody would have another PET scan three weeks after the last/fourth infusion. After Dr. Sosman questioned Woody and checked him out a bit, we headed to the infusion lab. We got there about 1 1/2 hours before his scheduled time. Once again he got called in ahead of time and the ipi was ordered from the pharmacy and things went pretty much on schedule. He started getting the ipi about the time that our appointment was supposed to start. We left the infusion lab and got our car and headed on down the road by a little after 3. We got to Steak and Shake (Woody's reward...what he looks forward to during his infusion!) and got our order in just under the wire for their 1/2 price shake time. We were back on the road in a timely manner...we didn't linger over lupper (lunch/supper) long as we were ready to get home. That is when things started to not go as clock-work. There had been two accidents on I-24 that afternoon. We knew about them before we left Vanderbilt, but figured that they would be cleared by the time we ate and got on our way again...wrong...guess we should have lingered over lupper longer! We were in stop and go traffic due to both of the accidents. I will admit to falling asleep and only slightly knowing that we were stopping and going...but it really made the last leg of our trip extra long.
We hardly got home before Woody was walking out of the house to walk to the prayer room at church. He has yet to return. And, this just about sums up our day! Oh, I didn't get my shirt finished...just didn't have enough oomph to get it finished it last night. And, we were put in one of the warmer rooms for his infusion so I really didn't need it...hopefully it will be finished when we go again in three weeks!
Two comments - one I didn't know there were ANY warm infusion rooms. Never gave us one ;) Two we always stopped at Steak and Shake in Franklin then took the country roads home. I always prayed to get through those 17 miles on I-65 to Franklin then it was pretty well no traffic home. praying for you both.
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