Thursday, August 15, 2013

Diagnosis: Leukemia; August 14, 1989

Alex woke me up at eight thirty. He wanted his breakfast, toast with peanut butter. Actually earlier this morning I had been awakened. Charlie had made so much noise I had woken up at six o’clock. It took me awhile to get back to sleep.

After breakfast I had a shower and got dressed. I washed Alex’s comforter and did the dishes. Then I got Alex to have a shower and get dressed.

We went to the doctors after eleven o’clock. Dr. C checked Alex first, he was acting really silly. Dr. C said you sure are silly today. Then it was my turn. She said I had put on two pounds this month. Dr. C said whatever you’re doing It must be working. Then she took my blood pressure and checked the baby. She said the baby is quite active.

Mom had asked me to ask the doctor how come I ended up with B positive blood. Dr. C said when the O positive replacement didn’t work and they used B negative replacement, the B dominants the O but a positive dominants a negative. Therefore you end up with B positive. Dr. C said you don’t have anything to worry about. I said I’m not worried we were just wondering how it works that way.

I also asked about Lyme disease we’ve been hearing so much about. Dr. C said when bitten by a tick the area breaks out in a rash. She said you would know if you had been bitten by a tick. I asked if mosquitoes bites were damaging to the baby like a tick would be. Dr. C said no not at all. She said she wants to see me in two weeks.

We went to Save On Foods to put Kelly’s prescription in. We came home and had lunch. I did the dishes and tided up the house. I wrote in the journal while watching tv.

Charlie came home at four o’clock. We ate dinner at five thirty. After dinner I did the dishes and put away Alex’s toys. Alex helped me do some of it.

Alex went to bed at nine thirty.

I watched tv, wrote in the journal and went to bed at ten thirty.

No Tests

Medication

Bactrim ------- 12:25 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
Mercaptopurine ------ 12:25 p.m. -------
Methotrexiate ------- 12:25 p.m. -------

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