2 posts tagged “sick”

MONO! It has been confirmed by the second blood test and an ultrasound of my internal organs. I have an enlarged spleen and have over the top liver enzyme numbers. The fever seems to have disappeared (just like it is supposed to) and has been replaced by a very swollen and sore throat and complete fatigue. I know I am supposed to rest but WHEN??

I have two small children and a full time job. I am going to be going to bed earlier every night and trying to nap when I get home from school (before the kids get home from extended day). I am going to curb my activities with cub scouts - and that is going to be the hardest considering it is all volunteers and I'm one of the main ones. My event, the Bottle Rocket Derby, is the 17th of May.

I hope everyone else out there is doing better than me. Have a wonderful evening.

I do. I really feel icky. It started on Sunday around noon but I just thought my alergies to the pollen was the cause. I hung out with my friend, Jen, and her kids playing two wonderful games of Clue so I didn't think much of the achy shoulders and chest, or the thumping headache. When I got home my eyes started to burn so I decided to take some tylenol and take my temperature. 100.7 - no wonder I felt bad. I went to bed early but between sweaty tossing and turning and my 6 year old waking up every hour shaking with fear over nightmares I didn't get much sleep.

My fever wasn't around in the morning, neither was the headache, but the aches were still there. I stayed home. At noon I started to feel real icky so I took my temperature again and it was up to 100.4 - tylenol and a two hour nap helped and it didn't return until around 10pm.

I slept pretty good last night and felt pretty good this morning, minus a few aches, so I went to work. I know, I know. Schools frown upon going to school for 24 hours after a fever. I now know why. At noon I stopped by the nurse's office of the second school I was in and they took my temperature. 100 again! She sent me home. I rested at home and then went and got the kids. We ate leftover pizza and went to cub scouts. I sat most of the time cutting the nose cone shapes for the upcoming bottle rockets so it was easy going. We came home and I started to feel icky again. It is back to 100.5 again. My chest still feels a bit tight and my shoulders and ribcage ache. I'm not coughing, I don't have a stuffy nose or sinus pressure, My stomach feels fine. What could it be, then, that is making me spike a fever and feel so icky?????