Treading Water!

Well, we managed to get up by 4am and were on the road right around 5:30. We, of course, got into quite a bit of rush hour traffic so we didn't make as good time as we usually do, but we signed in at the registration desk right at 7:15, which was our appointment time...though we are supposedly to get there 15 minutes ahead of appointment time. We were hoping for lots less folk in the lab waiting room since it was so early...but no...almost every seat was taken. BUT he was called in fairly quickly after we sat down. So he was in and out of the lab much quicker than he had been lately...no complaints! We then walked across the hall to wait in the doctor's waiting room. That was a bit longer wait, but not all that long. And, we didn't havae to wait on the doctor very long either. He looked at the tumor and then Debbie Wallace came in and declared what we knew already...that the bubbly part of the tumor had gotten larger and the other part smaller. She did not recommend for Woody to get more of the T-VEC injections. Dr. Wyman decided that he wanted Woody to get another PET scan this coming Monday so they could compare it to the one he had in September. Also having the PET scan Monday would let Woody's oncologist at TN Oncology know what is going on so he could make the decision as to whether to start Keytruda again. Woody sees Dr. Eze at TN Oncology next Wednesday so we should have results by then. Woody did ask about surgiclly removing the tumor. Dr. Wyman said that that might be an option, but that there is concern about how it would heal. Also radiation was mentioned. Those decisions will wait till after the PET Scan. So as tonight's blog title says...we are once again treading water...waiting to see what comes next. I got the answer I expected when I asked Woody how he was with these developments..."I just go with the flow!" I really sort of expected that he might not get an injection today. I don't think that Woody had really thought about it, but he said that he had assumed that he would get an injection today. At the moment you all know about as much as we do as to what the next step might be! We were home by a little after 11am even with going the back roads which takes a little longer. I think that we both napped away a good part of the afternoon after our early morning rising. Next week's PET scan is in the early afternoon...thank goodness we won't have to rearrange all schedules to get there on time that day! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!