Off We Go

I got a call yesterday in the middle of a class, and it sounded like I won the lottery! I have officially been accepted into the M. D. Anderson Research program, which means my cancer is sufficiently interesting enough that they want me over there to look at me in person. So Cheryl and I will head over to Houston after my class tomorrow afternoon and check into the hotel attached to their facility near downtown, and get ready to check in to the cancer center at noon on Thursday.

After a round of paperwork, I am to see my first doctor in the afternoon, and then they plan of starting a round of tests early on Friday, that will continue into the following week. Yikes. I am supposed to be teaching in Austin now.

I am not sure for now how we are going to pull all of this off. I called my boss to warn her that I might not be available at least for Monday classes, and perhaps not for classes next Thursday, since they seem to have a PET scan scheduled then in Houston. I may be on the road between here and there a bunch for a while (about four hours one way).

Oh well, that is what it takes to get to the best chance I have If I must, I must.

If all else fails, I will take sick leave and get someone to cover my classes, or figure out how to turn my classroom courses into distance classes. I am betting I can do that, if I can talk my boss into letting that happen.

We will see,

In the meantime, I am getting ready for the first road trip tomorrow!

Keep your fingers crossed that the good doctors there have some interesting tricks up their sleeves!