Diagnosis: Leukemia; July 6, 1987

It’s Mom’s Birthday today!

I woke up at six o’clock and woke Alex up to have his medicine. Alex said he wanted Charlie. I got the medicine ready while Alex went and got Charlie.

Alex and I went back to bed. Charlie went into Alex’s bed. Alex and Charlie woke me up at nine o’clock. I felt like I could sleep a couple more hours. It took me awhile to get out of bed.

Charlie went to the mall and Save-on-Foods. We waited for Charlie to come back before we made breakfast, as there wasn’t any bread. Alex watched TV and I cleaned up the house and did the laundry.

Charlie came home, Alex and I put away the groceries. Alex wanted a cheese sandwich. He played with his cars and trucks in his room.

I had lunch and went to the mall afterwards. I don’t know what it is but things have been getting to me. It was good to get away from it all. I came home around two o’clock.

I made a stew and put it in the crock pot, then I made a meatloaf. I want to have a few things made and put in the freezer. Lately I haven’t felt like cooking, I feel so drained by the afternoon.

Alex played in his room most of the afternoon. Before dinner he watched the Elephant Show. Alex had dinner at five o’clock, I had it around six o’clock. After dinner Alex and I did some colouring. Then he played in his room for awhile, I did the dishes and finished doing the stew.

Alex watched Mr Dressup until 8:30 p.m. He had a bath and went to bed. I cleaned up Alex’s room. As usual he said he couldn’t do it. So there was no story, it sounds mean but he has to learn to clean up his room.

Alex was asleep by nine o’clock. I had a snack and watched TV. I wrote in the journal for about half an hour. It’s 10:45 p.m., I’ll wait until midnight and give Alex his medicine then I’ll go to bed.

No tests

Medicine

Bactrim 10:45 a.m. ------ 7:47 p.m.
Orbenin 12:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 6:20 p.m.

Temperature 36.32C 10:50 a.m. 36.16C 6:35 p.m. 36.44C 9:00 p.m.