How is it already November? I turn 21 in a little over 3 weeks. Granted, I'll be spending my birthday in a clinic getting pumped with chemoshit and not in bars downtown pumping myself with more enjoyable chemicals, but I will try hard to enjoy the day anyway.

I spoke too soon last time about feeling completely better; overall I'm definitely much improved but I've developed some bad heartburn the past few days and am also still losing a lot of sleep from coughing, which is beginning to wear me back down. According to the nurses my white blood cell count is still very low from the chemo, which means I'm really susceptible to catching anything that comes my way at the moment. They won't even let me eat fresh fruit or vegetables until Monday due to the bacteria/disease risk.

I guess this journal has rapidly turned into a list of woes lately but I don't have much else to report right now. I haven't left the house to go anywhere but the clinic in days, not that I have much desire to. I was hoping to go home to see Matt and pick up my car and some more of my stuff this weekend, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen for another week because of the damn shots/check-ups each morning.

However, I had a nice surprise this morning. My roommate sent up my mail from Georgia which included my paycheck from work ($120) and my boss finally mailed me my last paycheck from my bussing job over the summer ($67). I think I might use the money to buy a PS2 this weekend. It was one of the reasons I got the job down at school in the first place, and by golly feels good to be all responcible-like and earn the money for something I want! Now to save up enough for Tekken 4, Final Fantasy X, GTA: Vice City...