Diagnosis: Leukemia; August 26, 1987

I woke up at eight thirty, Alex came in a said he wanted me to wake up.

Alex came into bed last night a three o’clock

I had breakfast and put away the dishes. Charlie said he wanted to go to the mall. I didn’t really want to go as I hadn’t had a shower yet but he said I should look for an outfit for the wedding. So we went to the mall.

What do you know I found an outfit to wear. It’s a blouse and skirt, it looks pretty good on.

Alex wanted something to eat as usual, he must be going to grow again. We bought Alex lunch then we went home.

I had a shower when I got home. After I had a shower Alex said he wanted to go see the Benji movie. It surprised me as I thought he was too tired.

I had lunch and got ready to go. We had to wait until one o’clock since Alex had to have his medicine.

We went to the theatre but it wasn’t open yet. We waited about twenty minutes then we went in. Alex fell asleep half way through the show. The movie was Benji the Hunted, I really enjoyed it. I love all the Benji movies, he or she reminds me so much of Missy and I sure miss the old girl. She was a very special dog to me. She treated me like she was my very first dog. When I left home she still greeted me and she was Dad’s dog, that’s for sure.

After the movie Alex woke up and he wanted me to carry him but I told him if I had to carry him, we would be going home. Alex started to cry and stomp his feet. I had to talk to him for awhile and he finally decided he wanted to go to the toy store, so he stopped complaining.

We came home at four thirty, we had dinner after five o’clock. We watched TV until six o’clock, then I wrote in the journal for about an hour.

I put the sprinklers on and went downstairs to exercise.

I moved the sprinklers at eight o’clock, then I gave Alex a bath. Alex went to bed at nine o’clock. I did the dishes, put the garbage downstairs and wrote in the journal.

It’s almost ten o’clock, I’m going to get ready for bed.

No tests

Medicine

Septra 8:00 a.m. ------ 8:00 p.m.
Mercapotpurine ----- ------ 8:00 p.m.
Prednisone 8:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

Temperature 35.76C 1:00 p.m. 35.95C 8:00 p.m.