Sunday, August 4, 2013

Diagnosis: Leukemia; August 4, 1989

I sure didn’t sleep very well last night. First I woke up at twelve thirty, I thought it was about five o’clock. I couldn’t believe it when it was only twelve thirty. I woke up on and off throughout the early morning. I woke up at five and got up to see what time it was, still too early to get up. Then I woke up again at six o’clock and decided I would get up then. Charlie and Alex were fast asleep. I had a shower and got dressed. The shower woke Charlie up but he soon went back to sleep.

I wrote in the journal until they woke up which was after seven o’clock. Alex had a shower and I helped him get dressed. Then I packed everything and Charlie put everything into the car.

We went to Smitty’s at eight o’clock. We started driving home at nine o’clock. We hadn’t been driving very long when I asked Charlie to pull into the scenic view point. He thought I wanted to look at the view but I wanted to drive. The highway is quite a winding roadway and I find I get quite queasy on a drive like that. It probably would help if he didn’t drive so fast.

We stopped at Revelstoke for lunch at McDonald’s. Alex had an ice cream cone after their lunch. Alex got ice cream on his nose. We thought it was quite funny but Alex was mad and spit chocolate ice cream all over Charlie. Charlie had to change his shirt and now he’s mad.

We left Revelstoke around one o’clock. We reached Kamloops at two fifteen. Charlie would have loved to stop in at Blair’s but there are too many reasons not to go.

I drove until Merritt then Charlie took over. He seemed to be glad to drive again, he looked very bored the last few hours. Even though the road is pretty straight, Charlie’s driving still bothers me. After I told him I would have to drive soon, he slowed down which really helped. For some reason the speed of the car makes me feel nauseated.

We didn’t get home until almost six o’clock. Charlie ordered a delivery of Chinese food for dinner. I started to unpack all our clothes.

I phoned Mom to let her know we were back. She said Kelly had one seizure on August 1 and he hadn’t had one since. I told her we would be down later.

We ate dinner then we got ready to go to Mom and Dad’s. When we got there Kelly was much the same pretty out of it. Before any medication he would have been very excited to see us and really greeted us. When I sat down he came over and sat very close so I could pat his head. He also sat close to Alex, he wanted our attention.

We came home at ten o’clock. Alex and I had a snack and went to bed.

No Tests

Medication

Cough syrup 8:00 a.m. ------ -----
Bactrim 8:00 a.m. ------ 10:30 p.m.

Temperature 36.5C 10:30 p.m.

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