Curbside Service!

Yesterday Nathan blew most of the leaves in our two yards out to the road.  And, look what came along early this morning to "vacuum" them up...the leaf truck!  Perfect timing.  I do think that Woody had observed them in another part of our neighborhood yesterday and alerted Nathan and Nathan got busy.  It was good to get them up before the rain that has settled in today...they got blown to the road while dry and got swept up while they were mostly dry.  Much easier job for all when they are dry.

At the moment we are waiting for Nathan to get back home with Isaac.  They had to make a trip to the ER as Isaac may have a broken arm.  I guess time will tell.  Hope he doesn't, but he continued to favor it for some time after it got hurt.  So far they haven't had any broken bones in their family...it seems that having seven children that they will probably have a broken bone or two before they get grown!

ER report:  Praising God!  Isaac's arm is not broken.  His elbow was dislocated.  Nathan said that almost immediately after the doctor popped it back in position (after a bit of crying), Isaac said it was all better and he popped his thumb into his mouth.  He had been hampered in his thumb sucking due to his arm hurting him!  Now he is a happy camper.  And, we are thankful that it wasn't any worse than it was.  Now...I will say that his siblings are going to be a bit disappointed as they had great plans for decorating his cast if it was broken!

Woody went for a walk early this morning before the rain started.  And, then headed off to do his Krogering and made a stop at the library. It has rained a little off and on a good part of the day.  It started really raining just a little while ago.  I'm hoping that the rains are gone by the time that we head off to Vanderbilt in the morning. We had our normal Wednesday schedule for school this morning.  Graham had his long time with Goosey (Woody) and Esther had her time with me.  After lunch I headed off to the church library and worked for a couple of hours.  On the way home I stopped at the quilt store to pick out some more fabric for Isaac's quilt.  I am washing the fabric while I blog.  I need to get the fabric ready as I am going to be going to an all day quilting shindig on Saturday and I need it ready to use then.

If all goes as planned, when I blog tomorrow night, Woody will have had his first infusion of Keytruda.  This is another immunotherapy drug (not chemotherapy).  It is supposed to aid his immune system in blocking and attacking the melanoma cells (a bit simplistic of an explanation...but that is the easiest way I know how to explain it). We did learn on Monday that there is still a possibility of the Yervoy (ipi) that he had four infusions to still do its job...sometimes it takes quite a few weeks to kick in.  The Keturda and Yervoy will not work against each other...rather they can work together.