At HUP

Rich arrived at HUP on Wednesday evening around 7 p.m. Floor 7 nurses informed me that when they found out a bed was needed for "Richard Taraborelli," they made sure they had one available "before floor 6 got him first." :)

It took them until 3:00 p.m. on Thursday to finally get the chemo. started, but his stay here at HUP has been uneventful since then. (That's what we want!) We had to move rooms once, but we moved to a room on the same floor, and back away from the nurses station. It's a lot quieter back here. They needed the room up front for someone who needed to be right near the nurse's station.

Richard is finished with his 24 hours of Methotrexate, and finished bag 2 of 4 of Ara-C this morning. He will get another bag of Ara-C around 4:00 this afternoon and one more at 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning. He can go home when the Methotrexate is at a level of .05 in his blood. It will depend on how fast his body flushes it out, which means I'm making him drink, drink, drink!

Thursday and Friday he took a lot of walks around the hospital, but today he's feeling a little more tired. He's taking a nap already this morning. We're still thankful that his main side effect from all this chemo. is just fatigue. He's certainly glad not to have the horrible nausea.

That's really all I can say for now. He has to finish his Ara-C bags and wait for the Methotrexate level to come down; then, he can go home!

Love, Daphne