Diagnosis: Leukemia; April 12, 1988

I woke up before eight o’clock. Alex wanted me to make him breakfast. Then I got dressed and vacuumed the house.

We didn’t go to gym class today, we went to Alain’s birthday party. It was at Chuck E. Cheese. Alex was really excited to go there.

Alex went on some of the rides before the party started. Most of the kids had pizza and the mother’s had the salad bar.

Marla and I went to the salad bar and we had to pay for our meal. I don’t think it was planned very well, we shouldn’t had to pay for our meal I don’t think.

Alex wanted to go back to Alain’s house but Coral wasn’t having people back to the house. Marla said she had to study, so I asked if Lanie could come over.

I took Lanie and Alex home. Marla said she would pick Lanie up at four thirty.

I told Alex tonight I was going to register him in some classes. I asked him what classes he wanted to go into. I told him all the classes so he could decide which ones he wanted to go into.

Alex finally decided on Mini-Sport and Dinosaur Delight.

Charlie go home around four o’clock.

I left not long after Marla took Lanie home.

When I got to the registration there wasn’t very many people there. I was the twelfth person there and Allison was number 1. I had phoned Allison in the afternoon but she had already left. She had told me she had phoned the rec centre and they said to come at three o’clock. I told her that was probably too early and that she should go at five o’clock. I guess she decided to go at three o’clock.

I talked to Allison for awhile while we waited for the registration to start.

I was able to get Alex into both classes. By the time I left Dinosaur Delight was full.

I got home after seven thirty, I had dinner that Charlie had made.

I got Alex ready for bed at eight o’clock.

I watched TV and wrote in the journal. I went to bed at eleven o’clock.

No tests

Medicine

Mercaptopurine ------- ------- 8:00 p.m.
Prednisone 8:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

Temperature 35.79C 8:00 a.m. 36.17C 8:00 p.m.