We left the house at 6:30 and Woody was checking in at the Vanderbilt Cancer Clinic by 8:15 (45 minutes early for his lab appointment). Traffic wasn't super bad...pretty much just normal rush hour traffic. We saw one accident on the way to Vanderbilt and one accident on the way home. Once he got registered he was called in fairly quickly for lab work and we headed over to the big waiting room on the outer realms of Dr. Sosman's exam rooms. He was called in very quickly there and we did wait for a while in the exam room, but not all that long. He saw Dr. Sosman's nurse practitioner today...a good thing as Dr. Sosman was on his way back from some big drug conferences...he would have been there eventually...but I am very glad that we weren't set up to meet with him today...or there is no telling how long of a day we would have had! She met with us very briefly...all labs looked good and she sent Woody on his way upstairs to the infusion clinic. We left Dr. Sosman's area ten minutes before our scheduled appointment with them. That meant that Woody signed in for his infusion appointment about an hour early. That waiting room was rather full, but it wasn't all that long of a wait before they had his infusion cubicle ready for him. The good thing about being early is that they can get the Keytruda ordered from the pharmacy...it takes a while for it to get from pharmacy to infusion lab. Due to the extremely high cost of the Keytruda, they don't order it till the patient is in the room and seated in the chair. His infusion appointment was for 11am and he was getting the Keytruda by 11:15. This infusion only takes 30 minutes and then there is a five minute drip after with saline. So we were out of there a little before noon and on our way home...heading toward our treat...Steak and Shake. We rarely get to Steak and Shake during a peak dining time...usually we are there in their down time. Well, today we found out why it is probably best to go in a down time. It was very busy and we got seated (note they did seat us...so it wasn't that we had just gone in and seated outselves...so at some point they knew that we were there)...they seated us in a rather obscure spot...at least we seemed to become invisible and we got to sit and relax! As Woody said that the extreme wait time didn't bother us as we weren't extremely hungry as we are when our lunch is put off until late in the afternoon. I think that at least four workers asked us various questions before we finally got to put in our order. Others who had come in after us had been served and some of those even left before we got our food. They do not have many servers (as so many places have cut back to bare minimum). We had the manager finally discover that we hadn't been waited on...he thought that we had already eaten and came and picked up our menus...finally he came back and realized that we hadn't even ordered...it still took a while to get our server to us...I'm thinking that she might have been new...at least we hadn't seen her before as we had seen all the other servers. We finally did get our food and enjoyed it all the more for the wait! The best was when one of the servers who had waited on us several other times stopped by our table and asked if everything was okay and then she realized that we hadn't even been brought silverware. She then told us to ask for her to be our server when we come in the next time. We finally got home at 3:15...I slept for part of the trip home and took a few pictures. We did take the back road home and Woody took a side road or two and I did get to take several pictures. Tonight's pictures were taken at our usual stop on the one-way bridge so I can record how much or how little water there is in the Duck River. Today Woody spotted something back on the little island that is sort of in the middle of the first picture. I was concentrating too much on framing the picture and didn't notice the bird...so I zoomed in as you can see in the other two pictures. The middle picture shows the bird's reflection in the water...you can see it better if you click on the pictures (towards the right side of the bush in the middle of the picture). The last one is taken with the zoom...so the first shows how far away I was and then the last shows how close my lens let me get. This guy never turned around before he flew away. But I am pretty sure that it is a great blue heron. I have taken pictures of them before, but never directly from behind...but the feather colors and the "v" on his head make me pretty sure that my identification is right...if someone else thinks that it something else then let us know in the comments. After we got home I took another nap...this day always wears me out more than it seems to wear Woody out. After supper, Woody walked to the prayer room at church. He has yet to return. I'm just glad to be here sitting in a chair at home typing...at least I am awake at the moment!
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