No Room at the Inns!

We finally found a hotel room...300 miles down the road. And, we stopped several times to be told that there were no rooms. The VA Tech vs GA Tech game is being played at Blacksburg, VA tonight. It is the Thursday night college game on ESPN. It looks like all the fans from VA and GA have taken up rooms along I-81. When I heard that there were going to be traffic problems on I-81 before and after the game, I thought, "uh-oh, probably going to be problems finding a room tonight." And, I was right. We are at Fort Chiswell, VA...300 miles away from NIH. When we stopped here about a half hour ago, the "inn keeper" told Woody that they only have two more rooms left and the other two would be gone before long! She said that from this point north most rooms are taken. We were ready to stop...so we were very glad to get the third to the last room here! This is the hotel that we try to stop at when we leave from church around 11am on our way to NIH. So tomorrow we have about 350 miles to drive.

Now, on to the NIH report. We got to NIH around 9:30am and turned in the voucher for our car mileage and hotel. Then we found a quiet spot and sat and read and rested. We went to lunch around 11am. Then we headed up to the clinic and signed in. We got called into the room around 1:20pm and left the room around 3pm. The doctors continue to be pleased. This time there are no new tumors and the old ones that they are watching haven't grown any more. They said that they may have shrunk more but only minimally...so they are saying that they are the same. Since things are pretty much status quo and Woody is feeling well, they have given him "the holidays" off and we don't have to go back for two months. It sounds nice not to have to go back till "next year!"

It rained all morning and was still raining when we left NIH. But we only had about two short periods of heavy rain while we drove this afternoon and evening...most of the time it was light and then we drove out of the rain completely. There is a chance of snow in the morning! So...the good Lord willin' I'll be blogging from home tomorrow night.