Picture Day!

We were up and out of the hotel room by 6:15am. We got on the hotel's shuttle to head to building 10 at NIH by 6:35am and were there by a little before 7am. We headed straight to the lab. Once they took about 10 vials of blood we were free to go sit and read for about an hour. At 8:15am we headed off for Woody to "pose" for his first pictures...by way of an MRI...of his brain and torso. For the torso portion, he had an excel torso coil put around him prior to being put in the tube. This was supposed to give a more exact image. He was called back at 8:45am and didn't come out till 10:35am...and, he said that he was in a tube most of that time. That made him more than 30 minutes late for his CT contrast appointment. I went to the CT scan area at 10am to tell them that he would be late. So we arrived about 45 minutes late in the CT area. They immediately gave him his berry "shake." He drank half and then the other half twenty minutes later. Then he waited to be called back. That's the point that I took tonight's blog picture of Woody in his lovely paper duds! He said that after he got called back it took forever for them to take him back in for his next set of pictures...CT scans of his abdomen and pelvis. He didn't come out till almost 1pm. They did have problems with the computer...it froze while doing the imaging so the tech had to reboot the computer! So lots of pictures have been taken of Woody today. We will go to see the doctors tomorrow to find out what they see or don't see in the pictures.


I read about 100 pages in my new book, worked a bit on my Sunday School lesson for Sunday, took pictures of fish in a fish tank, and fought a couple of very sleepy times in a couple of waiting rooms while waiting for Woody to get all his pictures taken. After Woody got finished, we headed to the cafeteria a little before 1pm. Woody had a tuna salad pita sandwich, some fresh fruit and a sampling of a couple kinds of different types of salads from the salad bar. I had my favorite roast beef caesar sandwich from Au Bon Pain. We ate and then headed back to the front of building 10 to catch the 1:40pm shuttle. We ended up having two shuttles to choose from...the one from the hotel and the one that NIH provides. Since two people had gotten on the hotel shuttle we took that one too so only one of the shuttles had to make the trip. We got back to the hotel about 2pm and found housekeeping in our room. So we went back downstairs and read our books in the lobby for about 15 minutes. When we went back upstairs the housekeeper was just leaving. So we got back into our room about 8 hours after leaving it this morning. We have since flopped on the bed watching TV, reading, and even a bit of napping. Woody didn't think that he had slept...but I heard snores! I'm hearing them at the moment too! I worked/played with my new photo software and some of the fish pictures that I took today. We watched a bit of the first day of Congress being back in session...that may have been the reason for falling to sleep! We watched several senators talk about changing the rules for filibustering. When talking about this subject, some of the senators seemed not to know when to stop talking...hmmmmm! We watched one of the first votes of this session in the House of Representatives...not many representatives were there...but then they weren't expecting this vote! I did enjoy watching some of this especially since we are here in the D.C. area...so close to where it was all happening!

Woody's clinic appointment to see the doctors is at 1pm tomorrow. We will go early to get signed in so we will hopefully be first to be seen. We want to see the doctors but not have to linger too long so we can miss D.C. rush hour traffic. Tomorrow night I will be blogging from somewhere between Bethesda and Tullahoma...the good Lord willin'!