My dog had cancer; June 15, 1989

I woke up just after eight o’clock. I had my breakfast and read for awhile then I gave Kelly his pill and had my shower. Alex woke up around nine thirty. I gave him his breakfast, he’s been wanting hot cereal for the last week or more. Kelly sure isn’t feeling well today, it really pains me to see him like that. Yesterday after having his second pill, Kelly starting panting and breathing quite heavily. Today he’s trying to throw up but nothing comes up. It’s rather surprising since he did have his dog food this morning. He keeps on going outside and chomping down grass like he just couldn’t get enough. After lunch I took Alex to his last gym class. I went to K-Mart and bought Dad his video game. Dad had said he wanted to get Zelda next, so that’s what we got him. Then I went to Safeway to buy milk and bread. Alex said he really liked his class, the teacher gave them a piece of gum and a sticker. We came home after his class. Alex phoned Patrick but he had gone to someone else’s house. Alex watched tv while I wrote in the journal. He seemed to be quite tired today, he laid on our bed and watched tv. We ate dinner at six o’clock. After dinner Charlie, Alex and Kelly went for a walk. First of all Kelly didn’t seem to want to go, he sure is feeling sick. He was outside earlier chomping down grass. Kelly did throw up but it was just grass that came up. When Kelly came back from his walk he was drooling. It’s hard to know if it’s from the growth or from the medicine. We watched tv then it was time for Alex to go to bed. It took him an hour since he wanted to play on his bed. He tends to take longer and longer playing. He was really making me mad, I told him from now on, no more playing just before you go to bed. By the time he was in bed it was ten o’clock. I went to bed at eleven o’clock.