Diagnosis: Leukemia; May 15, 1988

I woke up at nine o’clock. Alex woke up last night at eleven thirty. He said his jaw really hurt. I gave home Tempra but he said he had to sleep in our bed.

Mom phoned and said they had slept in and would be leaving soon. They have to go to Kelowna to have the van repaired. Mom said she didn’t know what to do with Geordie so I said I would look after him.

They came over at ten o’clock. Mom seemed a bit upset about leaving Geordie behind.

Once they were gone Geordie kept on looking for Mom and Dad to come into the house. After an hour he started to cry. I told him they had to go to the store and they couldn’t bring him with them. Not to worry they were coming back. Believe it or not this little talk seemed to help him. Geordie settled down but still followed us around the house.

We went out in the afternoon to Triple Tree nursery. We bought some seeds, vegetable plants and a couple of plants.

After we got home I took out the bulbs at the front. Halfway through doing the bulbs, I started to feel sick. I felt sick to my stomach and had pains in my stomach.

Alex and Kurt played together until five thirty. We started to cook dinner and ate at six o’clock. After dinner we took the dogs for a walk.

Alex fell asleep watching TV at seven o’clock. He woke up at nine o’clock. Alex said his jaw really hurt. At eleven thirty when I put Alex back to his bed he started to cry he said his jaw really hurt. I brought him into our bed and we could see that on his right side his face was swollen. I phoned the hospital and they said they can experience some jaw pain with Vincristine. There shouldn’t be any swelling. The nurse said to give Alex Tylenol and to take his temperature. If Alex still was in pain and had a fever he should come into the hospital. We should phone first.

It took Alex quite awhile before he fell asleep.

At two o’clock Alex woke me up. He was really warm. I took his temperature, it was 38.29c. We went back to sleep.

No tests

Medicine

Mercaptopurine ------ ------- 5:45 p.m.

Temperature 35.79C 11:00 a.m. 37.87 5:45 p.m.