On the road again...and back home again!

Some images along the road home

(guess you can tell we didn't drive the interstate!)

Entrance to a subdivision

Vulture on a barn roof

First fence view

Next fence view



And, the heavens opened!

We got to Melany's today just as the rain started in Murfreesboro. We loaded up into her vehicle and headed off to Vanderbilt. It rained on us most of the way there. We got to Vanderbilt right on time. Woody was called back almost immediately for lab work. And, it wasn't long after he came back to the waiting room that he was called back to the little waiting room outside Dr. Sosman's exam rooms. We sat there for a while...but not overly long and then we were taken to a room. We did have to wait for Dr. Sosman for some time. But, definitely not as long as last week. We were getting a bit hungry and Woody's stomach kept reminding us that it was time to eat! After seeing Dr. Sosman, we grabbed a quick bite to eat at Vanderbilt and were on the way home by 2:30. We got back to Tullahoma around 4:30...even stopping to take a few pictures and having rain part of the way back. (Total travel and doctor time today = 7 hours. 2 hours less than last week!)

Everything was very routine today at Vanderbilt. When the research nurse questioned Woody as to how he was doing, she very shortly decided that she and the doctor needed to tell Woody their ailments! All his blood work looked very good. Woody asked Dr. Sosman if it was a goal to have his blood counts change. Dr. Sosman said that they do want the chemo to do something to the marrow to show that it is working (they will know that it is doing that when his blood counts start changing--I think dropping). So probably if everything stays the same with his blood counts, then on August 10th they will be upping the dose of the known chemo drug. Also, the research nurse told us that we will probably always be "blind" as to whether he had the research drug or not.

We will be going back next Monday, August 3rd, for a repeat of today.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention that Woody got up this morning and since he wasn't going to work due to his appointment, he went outside and worked on sawing the tree up more. I was amazed to see how little of the tree is left!