Tuesday Travels

As you can see, the Autumn colors are beginning to get more vivid in Middle Tennessee...a very pretty drive both going and coming. We got off a little later than I thought we would, but last night I checked appointment times and they started a bit later than I thought they did. We headed out about 8:45, stopped to get gas at Kroger, and pulled up in front of the Ingram Cancer Center to take advantage of Vanderbilt's valet parking. The rest of our time there was mainly spent in waiting rooms...first for labs...long wait...short time in the lab...then wait till called in the cancer clinic waiting room...saw Debbie Wallace and a pharmacist...they checked on how the tumor was looking...Debbie made the decision that this time she would inject the tumor in two places (one in area she had been injecting (that part of tumor has shrunk quite a bit from the start) and the bubbled area of the tumor which is getting larger...then we headed back to the waiting room for 1-1/2 hour wait to get the medicine and get it thawed from the pharmacy...then finally we were in the room where she does the injections...got everything ready...injected the two parts of the tumor...the bubble part didnt bleed the way she expected...she bandaged him up and we were heading home at 2pm. We stopped for a late lunch at Arby's and then headed home. He decided to go the scenic route and the leaves are starting to get pretty...now the question is...in two weeks when we go next will the leaves be close to their peak or...will they mostly be off the trees? We're both glad to get home. I was very glad to get my mask off...not much fun to wear masks for long periods of time...and...then when one has sinus problems...definitely not fun! I have been blowing and blowing and blowing my nose ever since we got home! After we got home, I got Woody's mamual drain drained, took out the garbage...have barely had time to sit...and, now it is time to get tonight's dialysis treatment set up. We both did get some reading done while we waited today. We are both reading a John Grisham book...but not the same ones. I'm reading the one that Woody finished the other day (but in e-book form). He is an author that we both read and we had fallen behind several books during sheltering at home times. To sum up our Vanderbilt day: I think that it is felt that the T-VEC treatments are working on the tumor on his arm at least. It has also been decided that the tumor is really made up of two separate parts so both areas are being injected. Now we will wait and see if this bubble area responds as the more solid part of the tumor seems to be doing. She forgot to take a picture of it so I will try to remember to take one when I dress it and send the photo to her. Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!