Oct 7 & 8th

Well, today Jillian and I go to Vanderbilt for my evaluation for the SCT.

5:00 a.m. I fell getting out of bed! I went down like a ton of bricks, too. I was stunned. But to Vanderbilt I go!

11:30 - Labs  in a small office with LPN, took about 20 vials of blood. she started with the right arm & had to go to the left to get enough blood. exiting the right arm was extremely painful! she apologized for hitting a nerve

12:30 - meeting with financial office Actually the lady cam to the LPN's office and discussed my insurance while I was giving blood. i like that. very efficient.

1:00 - met with social worker, Kelly. what a sweet lady! gave me papers on foundations that give financial aid

3:00 - echo

4:00 - ekg

Had all my tests and everything went well. Most of the time we were early to the test and were taken right in. 

 the 8th

8:45 - LFT - silly guy giving the test but at least he was friendly

10:00 - skeletal survey  done old school with individual x-rays over my whole body. i asked why and the tech said the tubes give you 10X 's the radiation as the individual x-rays do. didn't know that

10:00 meeting with N.P. and doctor




We only had one snaffu.  We went back up to the second floor where the doctors office is and I sat in the waiting room and Jillian went to sign me in.  Well, she said she went to the sign in counter and one lady was busy and another lady volunteered to sign me in. So back to the waiting room Jillian went.

That was at 11:00. Forty five minutes later, the original sign in lady who was busy, came to the waiting room to tell us the N.P. was looking for us!  Kook kook lady NEVER signed me in! Jillian was livid, but held her tongue.

I finally got to see the N.P. then the doctor.  They went over everything, all my tests results were positive and gave my a calender of events for my SCT.

We got out of the Tuesday at about 1:00. We stopped at the grocery store and got snacks and a chicken sandwich and off we went to Knoxville.

All in all it was a great 2 days. Jillian is such a great help.  She wheeled me all around that place and buddy we were all over that place!

Saturday is my last revlimid day. Then I will have a couple weeks medicine free! Yay!

I go back Oct 22.