Over the River and Through the Fog to Vanderbilt We Went!

Parts of our ride both going and coming home took us through fog...more on the way to Nashville.  Today Woody had a yearly check in with his orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Ginger Holt, at Vanderbilt.  This was a appointment that was set up last year just to keep him in "the system."  Dr. Holt told him last year that if he was doing okay that it would be okay to just cancel the appointment.  In the end he was glad that he had the appointment as his leg had been bothering him...not the bones...but the area that had been radiated. The skin in that area had become very sensitive and was hurting quite a bit.  She took x-rays and those showed that the bone/bone cement that was her creation was doing well and looked fine.  She took a close look at the red area in the radiated place on his leg and decided that it was perhaps infected.  She felt like he needed a round of antibiotics.  After we got back in Tullahoma, we stopped at our pharmacy and picked up his prescription.  He is to take it for two weeks.  I am hoping that is what it is.  She wants us to let her know how it does.  She took a picture of the area on his leg and was going to put it in his records for a reference point.  I can send her a photo of what it looks like "after the antibiotics."  Technology is so funny these days.  She pulled her phone out to take the picture.  Back when she did his first surgery to remove the melanoma tumor on his upper arm bone, I sent her a picture when his incision started getting blisters.  She determined that the pattern of blisters showed that he had had a reaction with the adhesive on the tape that had been used.  So we have a history of using photos between Dr. Holt and us.  I guess that tradition will continue.

We have both just lazed around after returning from our trip to Vanderbilt.  That trip always seems to do me in these days!  Going to the orthopedist is a much shorter visit...we left a little before 8am and we were back before 1pm and had stopped to pick up his prescription. They were running over with patients today but it still wasn't a bad wait.  They called him in for x-rays almost as soon as they knew that he was there so that helped to move things along.  We had a little rain on the way home and the rain seems to have settled in now and we have had a slow continuous rain for a while.

Georgia seems to be settling in to her confinement on our sun porch. She has done a lot of sleeping.  She doesn't seem to be walking stiff legged today.  She is ready to greet us whenever we walk out there.  She would like to get out into the rest of the house...maybe when she has healed a little more?  She is the purriest of the two kittens and her purr hasn't left her!  Being on the back porch (which is a very narrow "room" on the back of the house half of which is the laundry room) she has floor to ceiling windows on one wall, the back of our house.  So it is a good place for her to look out in the day time and see what is going on in the world.  Peaches keeps coming up the back steps to look in the door to see what is going on inside.  Esther thinks that Peaches is wondering why that other cat gets to stay in all the time and she is only invited in for short periods of time! Georgia is still sleeping a lot which is good for her healing.  The children enjoy coming over to check on her.  A little earlier everyone except for Nathan and Graham were crammed in that small space checking on her.  She has been good about taking her medicine...thank goodness!  When I look out the family room door windows, she is usually in her basket (the one the children made a pillow for the other day...made for Peaches but has become Georgia's...or in the cat carrier.  She has a litter box and a bowl of food and a bowl of water and quite a bit of  loving throughout the day...what more could a wounded kitty want?