| June 3, 2002- OK, I apologize for being exceptionally lazy and not updating the website at all in the past month. I've been kinda busy with stuff going on all around me. I left off with an entry telling everyone my great news about getting all my tests results clean. That was a few days before my birthday, and let me just say that I had the best birthday of my life this year. I was really expecting it to be really boring and lame because I was going to be stuck at home with no friends to go out with or everything, but it turned out I was very wrong to think that. Tracy and my family pulled a little surprise on me and she came and stayed the weekend with me. That made me really happy. The next weekend was my trip to Virginia. Tracy wasn't able to go like we had planned on, but that was alright with me. I was so happy to be able to spend my birthday with her that not being able to take her to Virginia with me was not a problem at all. I'm actually kinda glad she didn't go. It was a really bogus trip. Only one of my friends kept their word and actually showed up to hang out with me (thanks Christine, you're the greatest!). The banquet wasn't what I expected either, and it was a miserably cold weekend for Virginia in May. I didn't even get to go to the beach which was one of the main things I wanted to do. At the end of my two day vacation I was more than ready to head back up home. Well, that's not the end of my excitement. Turns out that I did a little too much while I was down in Virginia and ended up getting sick. So sick that I went to the doctors to get checked out and passed out while I was there. A little advice, never NEVER pass out in front of a doctor. They put me in the hospital for 3 days all because I had a cold or something. Oh well, better safe than sorry I suppose. But they didn't do anything for me while I was there. It felt like wasted time to me. But I got out with no problems and I'm doing perfectly fine now. Let's see, what all else happened to me. Well, while I was in the hospital I was supposed to go up to visit Tracy for a day or two. However, things didn't work out the way we had planned and my mom was dead set on keeping me under house arrest until my next chemo (which got pushed back one week on the count of me being sick). I pleaded with my mom to let me go up and visit her but she just wouldn't have it. So what did I do? I went anyway. I know it wasn't really the most responsible or respectable thing to do but I was really pissed at my mom for being so strict and stuff. It was something I had to do, although whether or not it was the smartest thing I really dunno but I survived. After that nothing really happened. I got back from Tracy's and then just stayed at home and rested up. I had my fifth chemo on thursday, the 30th of May. This one was really bad. All day afterwards I felt like I had gotten run over by a fricken dump truck. My stomach hurt worse than it ever has before. I actually took some of the pills that are supposed to ease my pain a bit and they didn't seem to help at all. It was really a kick in the ass to take those pills. I hadn't had to take them at all since I started chemo and I was hoping that I'd be strong enough to tolerate the treatments without taking them. For the past few days I've just been laying around trying to think good thoughts and hope that I start feeling better soon. My summer class starts tomorrow night, and today I have been feeling better than I was in the past few days so hopefully by tomorrow I'll be fine. At least my class will give me something to do. Ever since I got back from Tracy's I've been bored out of my mind. I mean, I had a great birthday, and exciting weekend in my hometown, a trip to the hospital, and a trip to see my favorite person in the world. After all that sitting around at home with nothing to do seems a lot worse than it was before. I can't wait to get back to Pitt and get my life back on track. Oh, and I'll try to keep up with the webpage better. I'm sorry I didn't put anything new up in almost a month, but like I said I've either been busy or feeling like crap. |