Respite Day 4...Good News!

I snapped this picture a second too late...the bee had been in the flower when I started to take the picture...I thought that I had missed him completely, but then found out when reviewing the pictures on the computer that I had captured him in flight. Woody is always wanting me to stop the motion on an insect's wings...well, I did at least for one of this bee's wings.

Woody got up early as usual...but this time he didn't head to work, instead he headed to Harton Hospital for lab work. He found out how efficient Vanderbilt is "most of the time" when compared to today's experience at Harton Hospital. It took him about 45 min. of being sent from place to place and then finally to the lab...once in the lab it only took about a minute. I was concerned about us hearing today before Vanderbilt offices shut down for the weekend...but that concern was for nothing. A little after 1pm a nurse called from Vanderbilt to say that Woody's platelet count was up to a normal point...the count had been 95 and was now 134...so up a bunch. So we will be heading to Vanderbilt on Monday for Woody to start on the 4th cycle of his chemo drug study.

After Woody's lab work, he headed to work, worked through lunch , stopped on the way home to get a hair cut, and then came home to relax.

Today is one of those days that you know that you live in Tennessee...very humid...very close...Woody called in the afternoon to make sure that I knew that we were under a tornado watch (conditions are right for a tornado)...I didn't know, but wasn't surprised due to the way the air felt when I was carrying in the groceries...after Woody got home we heard the town warning siren going off...that meant a tornado warning (tornado sighted somewhere in our county)...that warning siren went off another time a little later. When the first band of the storm got to us, the rain really hit with a vengeance...just came down in sheets. We had the power go out a couple of times...just long enough to mess up clocks and the microwave. Before the storm hit we were almost 80 deg.F and after the second band of the storm went through, the temperature fell to the mid 60's. Anyway...it REALLY felt like TN today. We didn't get to go on a walk tonight as the rains/storms kept coming through and we couldn't tell exactly when the next would hit.