Meeting with Dr. Wolf. Tuesday, July 14, 2009

George and I had an early drive from Fresno to San Francisco. We arrived at UCSF on time, 12:30, and had a minimum of wait. They drew blood. Dr. Wolf’s assistant, Dr. Wieduwilt, MD,PhD. went over my medical history. Dr. Wolf then spent over 50 minutes with us – I know because we turned over the 90 minute cassette tape we were recording on! The scheduling nurse described all the hoops we now have to jump through: more tests, more drugs, more trips to San Francisco, and more signatures. We’d like to be on the fast track, because that means less chemo therapy here. It was a great thing that we had read all the current literature here, because we were fairly well prepared for the news and procedure. It was an exhausting day, I was glad we didn’t have to drive home that night.
We stayed the night in a refurbished old hotel at the east end of Golden Gate Park, quite nice. We had a relaxing meal then returned to the hotel. We drove home the next day.