Good News...AGAIN!!!!!

Got good news and got it in record time! We got to NIH a little after 9am and turned in our travel voucher request form. Then we headed to the car and left our suitcases. We sat and read till it was time to pick up the travel voucher. Then I had some Bon Pane beef and vegetable stew. Then it was time to go up and sign in for Woody's 1pm appointment. There were quite a few people in the waiting room so I figured that it would be a long afternoon...but I was VERY wrong! We had hardly sat down and they called Woody back to get weighed and get his blood pressure taken and they immediately took us back to a room. And we had hardly sat down and Woody's female Fellow came in. She had good news. The tumors that they continue to measure had gotten a bit smaller. She asked him questions and we asked her a couple of questions. She poked around on him a bit and told us that we don't have to come back for four months! Then the head doctor of the team (for today) came in and she told Woody that he was one of the "lucky" ones that the protocol that he had been given was working! That was it and we were out of there and it wasn't even time for our appointment. It took longer to get the next appointments made than it did to see the doctors today. I stayed to get the appointment made and Woody went to pick up his prescriptions at the pharmacy. Woody was finished before I was and we were out of the parking lot just a little after 1pm. We were out so early that Woody decided to head down the Blueridge Parkway through the Shenandoah National Park...takes a long time to head down that winding road with its 35 mph speed limit...PLUS he stopped at lots of overviews so I could take pictures! We have stopped for the night in Staunton (pronounced Stanton), VA. Sometime tomorrow...the good Lord willin'...we will be meeting up with our oldest granddaughter and let her show us around her college campus in Johnson City, TN. After we have visited with her for a while, we will head on down the road...and, the good Lord willin' I will be blogging from Tullahoma tomorrow night. Woody turned on the playoff baseball game on TV...but...guess since it isn't his team it hasn't captured his attention as he is dozing.