We Made It!

We are now at the hotel...enjoying free appetizers because our room wasn't ready (I had requested feather free). We left our VA lodgings at 7am Eastern time and arrived at NIH at 10:30am to find all patient parking gone...so we went back to the front and let them valet park the car. Woody checked in to have his lab work done at 11am. Then we sat and he did a crossword puzzle and I read a bit and dozed. When I woke up, we went to get me some lunch (Woody couldn't eat till after his CT scans). Then we went to the CT scan waiting room and did just that wait and wait. We were an hour early for his "shake" (contrast that he had to drink). He got that about an hour and fifteen minutes after we got to the waiting room. They called him back for the scan earlier than was planned...but then it was wait and wait some more...him in the back...me still in the waiting room. He was back there for 1 1/2 hours for a test that only took about five minutes when they finally got "to it." I can tell you that everything in the CT waiting room closes down at 4:30pm...if you are later you have to go back to the MRI waiting room! Woody finally resurfaced around 4:45pm. And we headed out to get our car from the valet parking and then pulled around and parked in the patient parking area (not so full at a little before 5pm). We chose to leave the car at NIH due to exorbitant parking charges at the hotel. We got out suitcases out and rolled them back into the main clinic building and headed to find out what time the next shuttle to our hotel would leave...and someone must be praying for us!!!!! The driver was right there "calling" for "Hotel North"...the exact shuttle that we needed to take us to our hotel. So we made it...arrived ahead of time for tests...got free parking...got free appetizers (which are big enough for our supper)...and now we just found out that they upgraded our room to the concierge floor (still at the NIH rate (which we will be paid back 1/2 for)...appetizers and breakfast on this floor)...prayers are definitely being answered...Woody says to keep it up!

Tomorrow we will check out...take the shuttle to NIH...see the research doctors around 1pm...and head on down the road after the doctors are finished talking with us. So I will be blogging some where between Bethesda and Tullahoma tomorrow night.