Woody's oncologist quickly told us today that the scan looked good. He feels like the Keytruda is doing what it should...at least inside Woody's body. There is one lymph node that showed up...but thankfully not multitudes! He wants Woody to continue the Keytruda. The next scan will be a full body PET scan...that will show extremities of Woody's body including bones. Using this scan Dr. Eze says that he thinks that it is time to have something done to the melanoma growth on his arm near his elbow since it is not responding to the Keytruda. He has referred Woody back to his Vanderbilt melanoma surgeon...but not for surgery...unless Dr. Kelley has changed his recomendation...but so Dr. Kelley can get the ball rolling to have the melanoma on Woody's arm injected with immunotherapy drug/s...something that Vanderbilt has developed. We go to see Dr. Kelley towards the end of August. Woody had labs, saw Dr. Eze, and had another Keytruda infusion today...that took up most of the morning. When we got home there was a message that Harton Hospital had called to set things up for Woody's surgery tomorrow. They asked him a million questions and finally told him what time to show up tomorrow...mid morning...at least we don't have to head out darkand early...but he will have to go hungry and thirsty a bit longer than if it was first thing! Yesterday dialysis moved his tomorrow's appointment to Friday afternoon. Once I had his surgery time, I called his urologist and moved tomorrow's appointment to Monday! So in the end instead of multiple appointments on one day this week he ended up with one every day from Monday thru Saturday with some spilling over into next week. Dr. O., kidney doctor, told Woody yesterday that they won't attempt PD dialysis until he has healed for two weeks. We are so hopeful that tomorrow's surgery will have his catheter working properly once again. The pretty flowers in tonight's photo were given to us by a friend who stopped by yesterday morning. Aren't they pretty! They look so pretty in the kitchen. Another friend dropped by after lunch yesterday and we sat on the front porch and visited for a while. Their visits were breaths of fresh air in a week that at times has seemed to be closing in around us. I'll report tomorrow on how his surgery goes. Nathan will be here at the house when we get home after surgery to help get Woody in the house and back in his recliner. It will be so much easier thanks to the ramp! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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