Today was my fourteenth immunotherapy treatment. I got on the road a bit late this morning but not so late that I was unable to make my scheduled appointment time. I generally pad my “leave the house” time a little bit because it helps when things don’t go exactly as planned. 🙂 Once I arrived, there was only a little wait time and then the blood work and infusion treatment processes went smoothly and quickly. I even managed to get home a little earlier than normal, and that included a quick stop for a late lunch.

So I mentioned in my last post that I told the nurses about the Ireland land title. Apparently that was entertaining enough that the story spread even to nurses that were not there for the initial story. I found this out today when one of them brought the medicine into my room to start the IV and said “Your medicine has arrived, lord.” while giggling. 😀 Another nurse did something similar when he removed the IV after the treatment was complete. I’m glad I was able to bring some entertainment to their day. 🙂

Extended Family

This past weekend we made a quick trip to North Eastern Tennessee to see extended family (on my wife’s side.) My wife and kids make the trip fairly often, but this was the first time in many years that I have made the trip with them. It was nice to see people who I had not seen for a while. And, my goodness, some of the “kids” I met a long time ago are now teens or older… makes me feel old, haha. 😀 Anyway, if any of you are reading this, thanks for hosting us and thanks for making me feel welcome in your homes.

Treatment

This last Tuesday, July 9th, was my thirteenth immunotherapy treatment and the treatment process went just fine. This time around, my treatment room was right next to the nurses’ desk and they didn’t bother closing the room door, so we chatted a little since I’ve gotten to know many of them over the time I’ve been coming in. One of the nurses at the desk had expressed in the past that she thought my last name “Sounded cool, like it should be a book character’s last name.”

I had also mentioned to this same nurse previously that my wife had bought us a 1ft x 1ft plot of land in Ireland, which came with a certificate saying that as land owners, we could officially call ourselves “Lord and Lady” (if we wanted to.) So, the nurse was telling this story to her coworkers while we were all conversing, and one of the others said “What?! That’s so much fun! I know what my husband is getting this Christmas! How do you do this?” So apparently there will be at least one, maybe a few nurses at that hospital who are going to gain a title as well, ha ha!

Tornadoes!

The trip home was interesting because on the way home, I hit some pretty heavy rainfall twice during my 2 hour drive. When I finally got home, the air raid/storm sirens were going off the moment I got out of of the car. Confused, I looked around the sky but it was only about 10% cloudy and otherwise sunny. Concerned by the lack of visible storm clouds, I soon found out that there was a tornado on the ground in a nearby city, so I was thankful to have just gotten home and to be with my family.

As it turns out, there were 6 tornadoes in the area that afternoon. The one I heard about first was rated EF-3. There was also an EF-2 on the ground for about eight miles in another neighboring city, and the other four were rated EF-1. Thankfully, though the twisters caused a significant amount of damage, so far I am not aware of any deaths or injuries reported.