Testing! Testing! Testing!

Some pleasant moments...like looking at the fountain...some scratching of the head as to just what the signs meant! And, then there were just the downright unpleasant moments as shown at the bottom of the page! His EKG looks pretty good...at least to us! Now for a run down of the day: we left our house at noon, got to Melany's a little before one, looked at Alex's newly decorated room, and then headed off to Vanderbilt. Major traffic jam on I-24...we went at a snail's pace for some time. Melany dropped us off at the cancer clinic at 2:25 (exactly our appt. time and we thought that we were going to get there early!). Woody first had lab work done. Then a study nurse came out to talk to us and to take us back to a room in the clinic for Woody to be checked out by a doctor...well...a Fellow who was a female...good joke for Woody. While we waited for the Fellow to arrive the "regular drug study nurse" (as in the nurse we have been talking to for a while about the drug study) came in and talked to us (she had been in a meeting). Then he got checked out by the Fellow. Then the study nurse took us to where he would get an EKG. After the EKG we headed to the radiology dept. where he had an MRI of his brain and a CT scan of his torso. Then we were free to leave. All that happened between 2:25 and 6:50. We were back to our car and on the way out of the parking garage by 7pm. We got to Melany's around 8. We went in for a potty break and also for Woody to drink some water (he is supposed to drink 3 large glasses of water prior to going to bed tonight!). Shortly after getting on 231 on our way home we came upon an accident that had just happened...didn't look good. We got by the accident prior to emergency vehicles arriving. We got home just around 9. Let's just say that it has been a long day at Vandy...once again!

We will be hearing from the drug study nurse probably tomorrow as to the results of some of the tests and also as to the day that he will begin the study. At the moment he is tentatively set to begin the study on Monday, July 13. If not the 13th, then it will be some day next week.