Rachel started the 3rd of 4 rounds of cisplatin/doxorubicin late last night. As with all of her chemos, she needs to have hours of hydration prior to it starting. These ones need “at least” 2 hours and then a urine sample is sent to the lab to make sure she’s hydrated enough to start. It was fine after 2 hours the last two rounds but this time it still wasn’t good after 5 hours, so the nurse called the doctor around 10:15pm; he made the determination that she was well hydrated and had the nurse start the chemo, finally.

They also squeezed in a follow-up EKG and echocardiogram before starting the doxorubicin, to make sure her heart is still doing okay. Everything still looks fine.