Diagnosis: Leukemia; September 23, 1988

I woke up at eight thirty, I can hardly breathe which makes it pretty difficult to sleep at night. Alex and I had breakfast then I had a shower and got dressed. I let Alex watch TV before I got him to have a shower. I helped him get dressed as he doesn’t want to get dressed by himself.

The hospital had left a message on Wednesday to phone them about Alex’s appointment for next Tuesday. I phoned yesterday, Evelyn said that his appointment would have to be changed to Wednesday as they were over booked. I told her that we couldn’t as Alex was going to his first class that day. Evelyn said that it would have to be changed as Dr. S had to cover the ward that day. So another words they were phoning to tell me that the appointment was changed and that was final!

We didn’t do much today as Alex and I are both not feeling that good. Charlie went to visit Dad before he went to work, so he left at twelve o’clock. Alex wanted to go to the mall but I wasn’t feeling good enough to go anywhere.

Mom dropped Geordie off at one o’clock. Then she went to the hospital. I had sent Alex to bed for a nap since he was so cranky. Alex woke up at four o’clock and was surprised to see Geordie here. Alex is quite annoyed that we can’t see Dad but it’s better this way. We don’t want to give him a cold!

I invited Mom to stay for dinner when she got back from the hospital. She said it was too late but I told her that I would have something ready for her when she got here.

I started to cook dinner around five o’clock. I was already cooking Macaroni and Cheese, when I realized I didn’t have enough Macaroni. I made enough just for Alex, I had to make something else for Mom and myself. We ended up having chicken, baked potatoes and corn.

Mom came after seven o’clock and we had dinner about half an hour later. Mom left at eight o’clock, she was pretty tired.

Alex and I watched TV, we have been watching the Olympics all week which sure is exciting. Alex went to bed at ten o’clock. I watched some more tv and went to bed at eleven o’clock.

No Tests

Medication

Cough Medicine 10:00 a.m. ----- -----
Bactrim 9:00 a.m. ------ 9:45 p.m.
Mercaptopurine ------ 2:00 p.m. ------

Temperature 36.78C 9:00 a.m. 36.88 9:45 p.m.