Diagnosis: Leukemia; August 11, 1987

We woke up around seven o’clock. I sure was tired, I went and had a shower.

I gave Alex gravol and we left at quarter to nine. I phoned Maureen last night and this morning but there was no answer. We decided we would go to Victoria and not to Nanaimo after all.

We went to the Tsawwassen ferry through Surrey, it took us about an hour. We didn’t make the ten o’clock ferry, it was full. We made it on the ten thirty ferry.

Alex liked going on the ferry, he liked going outside the most. We went into the gift shop. Alex wanted to send Grandma and Grandpa a postcard. He also wanted to buy a toy car.

We got off the ferry at 12:45 p.m. and it took us about half an hour to get to Victoria. We drove around for awhile checking out the motels. Charlie phoned a few and we finally decided on Doric. We checked in and put our stuff in our room. Then we went to downtown Victoria.

We went to the Little People Museum at the back of the Empress Hotel. Alex really enjoyed that and he bought a double Decker bus. Then we walked down to the Parliament buildings, back to the Empress Hotel and went into the hotel. We went to Chinatown afterwards, it’s quite small. We wandered through the stores and went for dinner at a restaurant there.

We went back to the motel and soaked our feet. We’re not use to doing so much walking. We decided we had better go to Butchart Gardens before it got too dark. We arrived around eight o’clock. Alex complained that he couldn’t walk so we got him a stroller. We watched a show called Just for Fun which was quite good. It’s a variety show of singing, dancing and comedy. We walked to the sunken garden and saw the waterfall. It’s really beautiful, by this time as it was getting dark.. They had all sorts of lights on it.

We walked through the rest of the garden but it was really dark by then so it was pretty difficult to see.

We went to the gift shop, it was really crowded. Everyone seemed to be buying something. We bought Alex a t-shirt, Monique a t-shit for her birthday and dried flowers in a glass to hang in a window.

We left the Gardens at eleven o’clock. Alex fell asleep on the way back to the motel. I put him into bed and he didn’t wake up.

We watched TV for awhile and went to bed.

No test

Medicine

Septra 8:00 a.m. ----- 7:35 p.m.
Mercaptopurine ----- ------ 7:35 p.m.
Dimenhydrinate 9:00 a.m. ------ -------

Temperature 36.23C 8:00 a.m. 36.14C 7:35 p.m.