Heading Home!

We got up this morning and got ready and headed over to NIH on the hotel shuttle. We headed to the car and got rid of the suitcase, etc. and then headed back to turn in the trip voucher request. Then it was wait for a while till it was time for Woody to have his PET scan. We ended up being the last patient seen by the team...mainly because they were waiting to have the PET scan sent to them to read. Woody's Fellow came in and told us that all the scans and the MRI looked good that they took yesterday...that the tumors they are watching continue to shrink! Good news! She couldn't address the place on Woody's leg until after they looked at the PET scans. So we waited and waited! Finally Woody's Fellow and another doctor came in. Both were very positive. The main doctor said that scans, MRI, etc. looked fantastic. They said that since they hadn't ever taken "pictures" of Woody's leg here at NIH, they didn't have the best knowledge to work with. They did have Woody's PET scan taken years ago in TN. They did say that the area on his leg was larger now than on the original PET scan. They want him to have radiation on an area of his leg. This will be able to be done in Tullahoma. Then they want to see him in several months after the radiation has been completed. It was a very positive doctor visit. The doctor that we hadn't seen before was super positive about how Woody had responded to the protocol. He liked the word "fantastic." Fantastic is a very good word! We are thankful to have such positive results and be heading home. We were hoping that if he had to have radiation, that he could have it at home. We didn't get away till after 5pm and we drove a ways and have stopped for the night in Woodstock, VA. Hopefully I'll be posting from Tullahoma tomorrow. Tonight's photo is the view above my head at my lunch table.