Another Vanderbilt Trip Under Our Belts

I didn't take any pictures on our trip today so will skip a photo for tonight. We left shortly after 5am and got home around 4:30pm...so an 11 1/2 hour day. It never seems to affect Woody, but I come home just beat. I slept part of the way home and then fell asleep in my chair shortly after I finished eating supper. Today's Vandy visit was pretty routine. We got to the PET Scan area early and they took him in early...and the rest of the morning we got taken into appointments before their appointed time. Even for Dr. Sosman's appointment. They actually came out into the large waiting room and asked if any of Dr. Sosman's patients were there. We were the only ones there at that time so she escorted us back and I think she picked up about five patient's papers before she got to ours...so we jumped ahead of five of his patients. Dr. Sosman had a "helper" today so they said that he was ahead of schedule. We got in so early that the scans hadn't gotten back to him yet so we don't know the results this time. Dr. Sosman was pleased with the way "things" are going and even talked about a time to end the Keytruda infusions...maybe after this 12 week round or perhaps after the next 12 week period. Keytruda is given every three weeks for twelve weeks and then a PET scan is done. So after this round that he is in now or perhaps after the next he will get to stop. Then he would just go every twelve weeks for a PET scan to make sure that his melanoma wasn't cropping back up. If it does start to show back up again, Keytruda can be started up again. This all sounded like very good news. Perhaps we will know when we go in three weeks again. Being called in early for appointments stopped when we got to the infusion clinic...we got there two hours before his appointment, but didn't get called in till exactly the time of his appointment (1pm)...then it took a total of two hours to be on our way home. We didn't stop to eat on the way home because it would have put us too much into rush hour. So we came home and ate some of the barbecue that I made over the weekend.