When the doctor from the medical team came in this morning she said that he "could" go home today, but they still needed tonget the infectious disease team on board to make decisons about what antibiotic he would be on when he leaves. And, that it might take most of the day to get them in the picture and get their decision. So she was very happy to hear that tomorrow was okay with us. Today had several problems for both Nathan and Melany to get here today. Melany is going to come get us in the morning. The infectious disease team has been here and the antibiotic change has happened. He is no longer hooked to any IVs...just lots of cords measuring his vitals. He is slowly graduating to freedom from all. Tonight they changed his meds from IV meds to pills...another step. Tomorrow those vitals cords will be detached and his IV access will be taken out and he will be free! Today he had dialysis...his last at Vandy...hopefully for a long time. Today was a busy phone day for me. I got in touch with our dialysis nurse in Tullahoma. She has arranged for a few weeks for Woody to go in center in Tullahoma for his dialysis treatments...gives us time to regroup after being away from home dialysis again. It will let me get all the home health folk back in our schedule. Davida got him a slot at the center on Saturdays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays...the routine that was established here at Vanderbilt. His dialysis treatment went well today so it looks like his graft is back to functioning correctly. I got a call from our personal care physician's office trying to set up his appointment with them. I got him back on the schedule at TN Oncology to see his oncologist and get back on Keytruda treatments. I contacted the home health agency to let them know that he will be back home tomorrow. I also contacted the wound care agency, but they wouldn't take my information till he was actually back home...so I have to call them back...sigh...oh, well, I tried to get things rolling again. We got a call from the doctor's office who did his endoscopy last Thursday and they made an appointment for him to come in. The infectious disease doctor said that an appointment would be made with Woody's doctor to see him in a month. Lots of appointments...and more to come. The first on the calendar will be dialysis on Saturday. That is such a long "appointment"...he will be there for about five hours from set up to take off. I just hope that he doesn't get drained like he did when he was doing in center before. He could hardly move when he got through. Then Monday he goes for his Keytruda. No rest for the weary...plus I'm sure that home health will be squeezing in time where and when they can. Lots of welcome backs to the "real" world. Our world has sort of stopped for the last week...now we will probably have many rude awakenings! We're both looking forward to getting home and back in touch with reality...at least to a point! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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