Another Long Vandy Day

We left the house at 5:05 this morning and didn't walk back into the house until 3:00 this afternoon...ten hours of driving, waiting, and tests. Due to leaving so early we got there with hardly any slow-downs...now if we had left five minutes later...there is no telling what sort of slow-downs there would have been. Anyway, we got there so early that valet parking hadn't started so we did something that we hadn't done since our early Vanderbilt days...parked the car ourselves. We parked in the garage right across from the hospital as Woody's first stop to register is right behind the hospital waiting room. He got registered quickly and we headed to the waiting room for the P.E.T. scan more than an hour early for his 7:45 appt. They took him in early since he was the first patient there...and that meant that he was finished early. I finished a book during the waiting time for the P.E.T. scan. We then headed back to the car as his next scheduled test wasn't at Vandy proper...but at an imaging place that is part of Vanderbilt but down the road a bit. It was just a block off of the road that we take to get back to the interstate...so that worked out well. We got there HOURS early and we waited all those hours as they didn't call him back till five minutes before his scheduled appointment which was for 11:45. He was finished at 1:10pm and we got back on the road. We had been watching the sky as there were predicted storms (bad storms) for this afternoon. We decided that we wouldn't take our usual time to stop and have a hamburgers and a shake at Steak and Shake. Woody is supposed to drink a lot to get rid of all the dyes so he decided that we would stop just for a shake someplace else. We ended up stopping at a Baskin Robbins. He had a pralines and cream shake and I had a hot fudge sundae. We took these on the road with us as we were still trying to beat the storms home. And, we did beat them...and the predicted bad storms didn't really develop here as it was thought they might. We did have thunder and some rain...but no straight line winds, no hail, and no tornadoes, etc. Woody thought about walking to the prayer room at church this evening, but realized that he was a might too tired to do that walking today...proud of him for realizing it and giving into it. This is the first time in a while that he has had two tests in one day and I remember how tired he used to get when he had several tests when we were at NIH. So we have battened down the hatches and are in for the night. Glad to be home after a long day.