Friday, December 21, 2012

Diagnosis: Leukemia; December 20, 1988

I woke up at nine o’clock. I felt a bit strange when I got up. I must be over tired, I’m feeling pretty dizzy.

Alex and I had a breakfast, a shower and got dressed. I vacuumed the house, did the dishes and tided up the house.

After lunch I cleaned the high chair then we took it down to Mom and Dad’s. Alex sure wasn’t in a good mood. Mom had told him he had better be good. He looked like he wanted to hit her, like what he does to Charlie and I went he’s really mad! We stayed for a little while then we went to see Dr. C.

Dr. C thanked us for our card. Then we talked about Alex. She said they never found out what Alex had. Dr. C said she felt that Alex had a viral infection in his throat. Something if left too long might develop into pneumonia. She said she didn’t know enough about chemotherapy to comment on whether or not it had any effect on causing more problems. I had told her about my discussion with Dr. S, whether chemo should have been given in part of not at all. Dr. C checked Alex and said he seems to be fine now. She told Alex to try and slow down. Good luck! Then she weight and measured Alex. She said he had grown a quarter of an inch and gained ¼ of a pound. Dr. C gave Alex a balloon, she told Alex if he wasn’t good she would write Santa. I said I’ve already done that!

We went to the post office and the grocery store, I bought bread them we came home.

I started to cook dinner when we got home, Charlie was already home. After dinner we went to the mall. Alex had a visit with Santa.

When we came home we watched TV, I wrote in the journal. Alex got ready for bed at nine o’clock. I watched TV and went to bed after ten o’clock.

No Tests

Medication

Mercaptopurine ------ ----- 5:00 p.m.

Temperature 11:40 a.m.

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