Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Diagnosis: Leukemia; July 31, 1988

Alex woke me up at six o’clock and told me he had an accident in the bed. He had come into bed with me during the night. I told Alex he could get changed and go and sleep in his own bed. Alex said he wanted to have a bath and then get dressed. I gave Alex a bath and got him dressed then I put the TV on for him to watch cartoons. I told Alex that I was so tired that I had to go back to bed.

Alex kept on coming into my room so many times that I really didn’t get much sleep anyways. Alex wanted me to get him breakfast but I told him we were going to go to McDonald’s for breakfast, I had a shower, got dressed, did my hair and changed the sheets on my bed and put them in the wash. Meanwhile Mom phoned to see if I wanted to come over for dinner with Alex. I said it would be nice to get out for a change.

Alex and I left for McDonald’s at ten thirty. On the way there Alex said that he was going to be sick. I think it was because he was too hungry. I told Alex to chew some gum until we got there that it would help. Alex was okay and didn’t throw up on the way there.

Alex wanted a McDonald glass, they are only $.79 I figured that was pretty good. Alex played in the playroom after he had eaten his breakfast, he only ate half of the hotcakes. I ate the other half, I figured I needed to eat more I was feeling pretty weird. On the way to McDonald’s the vision on my right eye went blurry on the outside corner. While I was eating it was there and then all of a sudden it disappeared and left me with a terrible headache. We went home and I took two panadol. I laid down but it was hard to rest with Alex coming in and out of the room. I got up and put a bag of frozen peas on my head. It took the headache away but the pain went into my eye. The strange thing was that the pain was on the left side. Alex saw me with the bag of peas on my head and decided that he should have one on too, so he got the bag of corn. We must of looked pretty funny!

I laid down again and fell asleep. I checked on Alex and he was asleep on the couch. I felt a lot better for having the sleep.

We left for Mom and Dad’s at three o’clock, on the way there we took back the video’s. We got there before four o’clock, Alex played quite a bit with Dad. He had told me before that he thought Grandpa was pretty silly.

After dinner Alex watched TV with Grandpa they both watched his tape believe it or not! We went home at eight thirty. Alex wasn’t tired at all when we got home. We watched TV and I tided up the house before we went to bed. Alex went to bed at eleven o’clock, much to his disgust he said I should be going to bed as well. I went to bed at midnight. Kelly barked three times before he settled down. I had to get up and check to make sure everything was okay. Then I finally was able to go to sleep.

No Tests

Medication

Mercaptopurine ----- ----- 6:00 p.m.

Temperature 36.06 6:00 p.m.

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