Living with Mononucleosis

My life over the past week has officially sucked. Starting last Monday, my throat started hurting. Figured I was coming down with a cold. Then I wake up Tuesday morning and the pain is so intense that I am near tears. So I call in sick to work and call my doctor who thinks its Strep Throat. Get the antibiotics and start it right away. Get thru Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I will remember these days as "The days that I felt that I didn't really need a throat... Let's cut it out". The pain that I felt for those three days was something that I have never felt before. Every time I would swallow, I felt like I had just swallowed a fireball. Then there was the fever which would go away with some Motrin and then come back with a vengeance once the pills wore off. Needless to say, that sleep didn't really come by very often either with the pain and the fever.

So come Thrusday evening, the antibiotics haven't performed their duty (for which I believe that I should get my money back, but that will be another endeavor). So I got to the doctor on Friday morning, and she draws some blood to run a couple of tests. Guess what comes back...

I HAVE FREAKING MONO!!!! MONO!!!!

This is the disease that everyone made fun of in school if you got it because it is most commonly passed through saliva, which means kissing was the easiest way to transfer it. I don't even have any cool stories to go along with having Mono, like I made out with a bunch of different girls and that is how I got it. Plus, adults are supposed to be immune to it, so I feel super duper great about having a disease which I am supposed to be too old to get.

So now that they know what I have, all I can do is let the infection run its course since Mono is a virus and antibiotics don't work. All she gave me were some steroids to help reduce the inflammation in my throat. Now I know what Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire feel like. I am all juiced up. I can already see the muscles starting to bulge and my head is getting bigger. I just hope this doesn't effect my candidacy for the baseball hall of fame.

Today's picture is that of my daily medicinal regimen for the time being. The 2 big purple pills are Acai Antioxidants to help boost my immune system, 1 whitish pill is a daily vitamin, 3 circular pills are steroids, 1 small purple pill is to help with nausea, and 12 Motrin to help with the pain and the fever. And on top of that, I have always had a horribly hard time swallowing pills, so that makes this so much more fun....