Both Going and Coming

I think that this was a "first"... to have to stop for the train both going to and coming home from Vanderbilt. Today marked our 65th trip to Vanderbilt over a 32 month period. That time period is split with four years of NIH in the middle (17 mon. Vandy, 4 years NIH, 15 mon. Vandy (from Dec. 2008-present)). The other night I got curious as to how many times we have gone to Vanderbilt. So if you add those two Vandy time periods together, we average a little more than going twice a month in those 32 months. That's a lot of trips (and a lot of photos along the highways and biways)! Woody got up early and walked six miles before going to Vanderbilt. We left home around 7:20am and returned a little after 4pm...a typical Vandy day. But all in all everything went pretty much like clockwork. Our appoitments had been rearranged so they were a bit closer together than normal...but that made the lab work not get back as quickly as needed for the time of his Keytruda infusion...so that is the main place the infusion clinic was where we had the most waiting time. They can't give him the infusion till they make sure that all his labs are okay. He also had to get stuck four times today...he didn't fare so well in the lab and because they had to stick him so many times they couldn't leave a "port" in so he had to be stuck again for his infusion. She took her time and did a great job. Woody saw the nurse practitioner again as Dr. Sosman was out of town...again. After she went over things with Woody, she told him that he was boring. Boring is a good thing! We stopped on our way home and ate at Olive Gardens for a change of pace. We enjoyed the meal. We came home to a different colored walkway in front of our house...Graham had pressure washed it! A little while after we got home Woody hopped in the car and went to the Life Care Center to turn on the Yankee's game for Jeff. Then Woody went to the prayer room. He got home a little while ago. I think that about sums up our day. Now we are ready to settle in for a quiet evening. Oh, and I did finish sorting my pictures over the weekend...that is till I just uploaded the pictures from my camera a few minutes ago.