Tuesday, January 30, 2018

A Good Word to Continue Hearing From Your Cancer Doctor!


Everything looked good with Woody's CT scans today.  And, the word at Woody's last appointment from Dr. Wyman was that if things looked good today in the scans then he would move appointments to six months apart!  Hooray!  This marks two years that Woody has been in what they term "remission."  A very good place to be!  Answered prayers!

Tonight's photo is part of one of the four collages that hang on the wall in the hall that leads toward's the patient exam rooms where we see the doctor.  On the way out the words "Yay Remission!!" popped out at me. Woody was on his way to check out and get his next appointments so I decided to go back and snap a picture of part of that collage...figured that these words were apropos for today!  These collages seem to be made up of  words of encouragement for patients and notes of thanks to doctors from patients.  I noticed that one of the notes that can be seen at the top of the second picture is signed from "a melanoma survivor."  More words that fit Woody's Vanderbilt experience!

We left the house at 8am and returned a little after 3pm.  Everything went pretty much like clockwork...one appointment after another and most close to on time...waited for a while for the scan but then he didn't have contrast dye...so the scan only took a few minutes. We knew that we would have a wait to see Dr. Wyman because he doesn't see patients till after lunch.  I think that we were leaving Dr. Wyman's office at about the time that Woody's appointment was scheduled...so sometimes we were ahead of schedule! Vanderbilt wasn't covered up with patients like it is some times...so I'm sure that helped us to move right along from point A to point B and then to point C! We even managed to miss Nashville's rush hour traffic at both ends of our trip.  We did have school zones at both ends...but that is much better than rush hour traffic patterns!  We are both tired.  Neither of us slept all that great last night.  Woody chose to drive to the prayer room this evening rather than walk.  I think that was wise.  He came home just a few minutes ago. So...once again we are settled in for a quiet uneventful evening after our gadabout day!.  

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