Last Vanderbilt appointment for March and a surprise

Another long day at Vandy--left at 11am and didn't get home till after 6pm. And, I'm not sure that this appointment was really necessary. Once they found out that we were requesting to have the radiation done in Tullahoma, the doctor said that he didn't tell other doctors what to do (as in the doctors in Tullahoma)...soooooooooo we did finally convince him to do a referral for us--which is what we were there for! They got us an appointment at TN Oncology here in Tullahoma on March 31 (the title just said last Vanderbilt appt. for March!). I was glad that Dr. Holt had told us yesterday not to let them make us feel that the radiation treatments had to take place at Vandy--that Tullahoma would be fine.

The doctor did say that our insurance might not accept radiation done at this time in Woody's treatment--that "usually" it is done immediately after the surgery--and that our insurance might not agree that it should be done two months after the surgery. We and/or the radiation folk will be looking into this. We did pick up a cd of all the xrays, etc. that have been taken at Vandy to take to the radiologists in Tullahoma.

One interesting thing that we found out is that IL-2 and radiation can't be done at the same time--that this is a window that Dr. Sosman has found for Woody. He said that he and Dr. Sosman had found out the hard way that you couldn't mix the two...we didn't ask what happened--but don't want to find out personally!

Now for the surprise--Woody is going back to work in the morning (Wed., March 25)! Before we left this morning, Woody got the letter from his short term disability that had been interpreted at work that he had been approved till May 6...but when he read it he didn't interpret it that way. So he thinks that his short term disability was over Monday (March 23). So today while we were at the oncology radiologist's we put in a call to Dr. Sosman to get a note that releases him to go back to work tomorrow. So we picked that up after our radiology appointment.

Please be in prayer for him as he returns to work.