My family has had its share of ups and downs, in oh so many ways. Just when we thought we were emerging out of the darkness into the pure, clear light of the sun, the Other Half's daughter came down with mono.She's only 11, so spare me the remarks about it being a kissing disease, please. The real question is: How did she get it and do we have it?
It's not as if her symptoms were severe, and apparently they aren't always. She had a slightly sore throat and was somewhat lethargic. But since I had just been sick with The Mung, I felt it was best to take her to the doctors. Imagine our suprise, especially on the tail-end of a weekend where my son had accidentally grabbed the wrong soda (hers) and had proceeded to take a big swig out of it before anyone could stop him.
I'm beginning to feel like a leper. Disaster and contagion seem to be following my family about as a cat follows a wounded mouse. I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad Monty Python movie.
I keep saying it could get worse (and it certainly could) but I find myself saying that now while furtively glancing over my shoulder and knocking on wood.
The good news is that fully 90% of the population over the age of 35 has been infected with it, and many people never know they even had it. Let that apply to the rest of us, is all I ask.
In the meantime, if you're planning on coming by and sharing a soda with me, I'd recommend you rethink it. That is, unless you bring your own straw.
18 comments:
as you point out, Mono can be no fun but the vast majority of the population gets over it. The good news here? Your kids are getting past the age where catching junk is a weekly affair!
How I remember those days...where every other week one of the kids were sick with something. We used to blame daycare for this though...or at least the ex did.
You'd better move to Oklahoma, cause we don't get that stuff here!
Okay, I lied.
That's something I've never had, although I thought I did have it once after practicing my kissing technique on a mirror...
Let me ask you something though. How do you know if you have mono? I mean, is it like a type of 'sick' where you can't move out of bed? Or can you be walking around thinking you have some sort of cold? I've been sick with something----but I wasn't sure what. I thought it was the flu, but now I'm not so sure.
Hmmmm.... I hope your family feels better. And thank God through my OCD problems, I would never grab someone else's soda.
Shweew!
P.S. I tried logging onto your blog yesterday, and it said, Error 403 you are forbidden from this site.
What gives????? (ha) Seriously!
Deb, Blogger was apparently having some probs. I had the hardest time even posting yesterday! I finally gave up and considered it lucky that I got anything up at ALL.
If you click on the link for mono in my post, you can read up on it. The symptoms are very close to strep throat, and often they're mistaken. But sometimes you can't even tell you have it in a mild version. You've prob. had it and thought it was a mild cold and that was that.
Uncle Joe, my mom got it and was bedridden for weeks when she was a teen!
Mike, yeah, daycare and schools are breeding grounds for The Mung.
Mallory, *knock on wood* literally...
I have a massive straw, reaches from me to you and we can share a glass of pop.
sometimes I think I have mono
I see the prayers need to continue, and they shall.
Hoping your plate empties soon, and you and the family can enjoy the beautiful weather. As far as the straw thing... no problem, I don't drink sodas.
Take care!
I bet you don't get it. I usually don't get sick from the kids except for that whole puking thing last week. Good luck
Put the Saurs in quarantine!!
Poor girl. I hope she feels better soon.
When it rains, it pours.
I think just as good things happen in groups, so do bad. And it always seems to happen all at once. I try to look at it as a phase to get past. Trust me, my family knows all about the illness thing. It's difficult to stay positive at times like this, but it WILL get better. Go see a funny movie. Take some time for yourself and read a good fiction book. Not that you haven't heard the same advice a million times. Kepp your chin up, and as always, if there's anything I can do, let me know.
Mono always makes me think about my Mom and her education at the University of Modus Ponens.
If cutting the grass causes my brother to catch mono, strep throat and hepatitis, then my brother should not cut the grass.
Cutting the grass causes my brother to catch Mono, strep throat and hepatitis.
Therefore, my brother should not cut the grass.
I always find eating a bag of Reeses Pieces makes things better.
Geez. Sorry about the mono and all the sickness! I'll be thinking of you.
Oh, poor thing. I had mono along with strep throat years ago. I was miserable. I was going through a phase of having the step throat recur month after month. Four months in a row, I got the bicillen injection...OUCH!
Anyway, I hope she is feeling better soon and that no one else in the house gets it.
I have my purple crazy straw I'll bring with me!
Thank you for posting this. I told my daughter, when she jumped on her nine years old, that Mono does not always come from kissing. Now I am going to send her this link!
You hand in there Saur ... you have a wonderful caring spirit, and yes ... here's an old worn out cliche' ... but it's coming from my heart --- this too shall pass. In the mean time, I will bring my own straw.
I got mono in High School from an unfaithful boyfriend... it was tough and I had bad symptoms. I had twins some 15 years later and when they were 2 months old I tested positive for it again. They said it was really unusual... but it was awful!!!!
Both times no one else in the house got infected.
Good luck!!!!
I had mono last year... But lucky for me it was not that serious, and I was at college so I had lots of freedom to just hang around the house and use the computer. So in a way, I actually enjoyed the excuse to be lazy.
Not being able to work out for 3 months, however, was really annoying. I still have a bump on my neck from the mono, so clearly I still have some left in my body.
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