City Sidewalks, Busy Sidewalks

Well, it was a busy day, though we didn't see a lot of sidewalks...mainly busy waiting rooms and halls at Vanderbilt.  We were told that there were 700 scheduled appointments in the cancer center today...when told that we understood why things went so slowly even though we got there almost an hour early (traffic wasn't a problem today).  They said that today was nothing compared to yesterday when there were 900 scheduled appointments!  When I was making Woody's appointments, the young lady told me that yesterday there were no seats in the main very large waiting room and that there was a line out the door and down the hall of people waiting to sign in.  It took a long time for Woody to be called in to have his labs done and that caused the results not to be back when we saw Dr. Sosman's nurse practitioner. By the time she had talked with Woody and started working on an appointment for Woody's PET scan (approximately 12 weeks from the start of Keytruda) and going to check with Dr. Sosman about something, the lab results were in.  The results showed that Woody's creatinine level was slightly up so she told him to drink more water and also gave orders for him to have a larger amount of saline solution today to try to re-hydrate him. The infusion took longer today as he had to finish up the bag of saline after his third Keytruda infusion was complete.  A nurse did come in and increase the drip amount so it wouldn't take forever. We didn't leave the infusion room till 2:25 pm and we got to Vanderbilt at 8:40am...so almost 6 hours spent in waiting rooms and exam rooms and infusion rooms.  We headed on down the highway for our "after-infusion date" at Steak and Shake.  We made one more stop at The Avenue in Murfreesboro for an unsuccessful shopping trip.  We just got some exercise walking from one end almost to the other on this brisk December night.  After not finding what we were looking for, we got back in the car and headed to Tullahoma.  We pulled into the driveway at 5:45pm.  So we were away from home a little more than 10 1/2 hours today.  A very long day! We are both very happy to be back home. We both headed to our respective recliners! I did sleep in the car a bit on the way back so I "may" attempt to accomplish something tonight...like get my cutting table converted to a wrapping table...I "might" even wrap a present.  'Tis the season!