Diagnosis: Leukemia; November 8, 1988

I woke up at nine o‘clock. Alex and I had breakfast, he seems to be okay today. I wonder if he had the flu yesterday. Alex played in his room while I did some work around the house.

After lunch Alex played some more while I finished doing my work. Charlie came home at four o’clock. We had dinner at five thirty and then we got ready to go to Shirley’s. Brent asked us to bring over the Cops tape. We arrived before seven o’clock. When we got there Shirley said she had just found out that Monique hadn’t been feeling well and had a temperature. By that time it was too late, Alex had already come in contact with her. I told Alex to stay away from her and when I found she was in Brent’s room with them I told Alex he couldn’t stay in the room with her. It probably wasn’t very nice of me but I didn’t want Alex to get anything more. Brent told Alex to come back into the room but I told him he could only go back in if Monique wasn’t there. They quickly got into Brent’s room before Monique and closed the door. Monique cried since she couldn’t get in the room. Shirley tried to console her but she was pretty upset about the whole matter. Monique really doesn’t look too good, she must have a very bad cold. She fell asleep in Shirley’s arms while we were watching TV. Aaron put her to bed, she cried a little bit when he took her upstairs to bed.

We stayed until ten o’clock and came home. When I was getting Alex ready for bed he said he was cold. I said maybe you have a temperature. Alex said he wasn’t hot that he was cold. When I took his temperature it was 38.8C, so he did have a temperature. I phoned the hospital after I had gotten him ready for bed. The nurse told me that I should give Alex Tylenol and to take his temperature two hours from now. By the time I gave Alex the Tylenol it was 11:45 p.m. so I had to wait until two o’clock in the morning to take his temperature. I watched tv, I figured there wasn’t much point in going to bed.

At two o’clock I too Alex’s temperature and it had gone down to 37.4C the nurse had said if it didn’t go down that we would have to bring Alex into the emergency. If it did go down we should bring Alex into see our family doctor the next day. I went to bed after I had taken Alex’s temperature, Charlie had slept through the whole ordeal. It was probably better anyways since he would have been very tired.

No Tests

Medication

Tylenol ------ ------ 11:45 p.m.
Mercaptopurine 9:00 a.m. ----- -------


Temperature 38.86C 10:30 p.m. 38.44C 11:00 p.m. 39.31C 11:30 p.m.
39.41C 12:05p.m. 38.77C 12:30 a.m. 37.65C 1:15 a.m. 37.40 1:45 a.m.