Diagnosis: Leukemia; November 16, 1988

I woke up at ten o’clock. Alex and I had breakfast then I had a shower and got dressed.

We colored stickers and then it was time for lunch. After lunch we played school, Alex was the teacher and he said his name was Mr. Brown. I was a little girl named Nicole, I left my house (located in the spare room) said good bye to my Mama (who was also Alex). Then I went to the school room (located in Alex’s room) I sat down on the floor and when Mr. Brown said hello class. I said Good morning Mr. Brown. Then Mr. Brown got us to color, took us to the playground, we did more coloring then it was lunch time. Nicole had brought her lunch in her Ghostbusters lunch box. Nicole’s Mama had packed it. She put in a cheese and ham sandwich, an apple and tea. After lunch we colored some more and did our numbers then it was time to go home. Nicole told her Mama what she did at school and told her how much she missed her Mama.

Then it was Alex’s turn to be the child and I was the teacher. Alex said his name was Mr. Lee. I told him that kids don’t usually have a name like that. Alex said Mr. Bear has a name like that. We did the same things as we did before.

At lunch time Alex had his lunch in his Ghostbusters lunch box. He said it was just like the kids at school have. I had made it while Alex was playing so it was a surprise for him. He liked it especially with the juice in his thermos.

Charlie came home at four o’clock. We ate dinner at six o’clock. I did the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen. Then I went to Save-On-Foods to buy a few things. I wasn’t gone long I felt sort of funny. I’ve been feeling very tired this last week and I haven’t slept very well. I keep walking up wondering if Alex had his medicine.

When I got home Alex said he wanted chips and dip. Then I got Alex ready for bed. I watched TV, wrote in the journal and went to bed at midnight after I had given Alex his medicine.

No Tests

Medication

Bactrim ----- ----- 5:00 p.m.
Erythromycin 5:30 a.m. 11:40 a.m. 5:40 p.m. 11:40 p.m.

Temperature 36.20C 11:40 a.m. 36.30C 5:40 p.m. 34.73C 11:40 p.m.