Rachel was still feeling pretty awful yesterday, but her nausea is better today. She’s still really tired.

With methotrexate treatments, she gets the chemo on the first day and then just has to wait in the hospital until it clears her system. They check her blood every 24 hours (more often if she’s getting close and might be able to go home sooner.) After the first 24 hours they want the level to be less than 10 and hers was 26 – probably explains why she was so out of it and couldn’t keep her eyes open that next day. They increased her fluid rate to help it clear her system better. After 48 hours they want it to be less than 1 and after 72 hours and in order to go home it needs to be less than 0.1. Hers was good to go home this afternoon and we left the hospital around 4:30pm.

We got to our apartment and the landlord hadn’t had anyone plow our parking lot (looked like someone had plowed early in the storm and didn’t come back even though it was a huge storm that even caused my office to close, which is extremely rare.) Rachel had to climb over a snowbank to get into the apartment while feeling exhausted from chemo and then Caitlyn and I had to shovel so that I had a place to park my car so it wouldn’t get towed on the street. So annoyed…