Woe

[annearchy]

1. Darling Daughter did not wake up yesterday until almost 5 p.m.. She slept for something like 16 hours between about midnight Fri/Sat and yesterday afternoon. I tried to wake her several times but she couldn't stay awake for more than a minute or two each time. AOnce she was awake she stayed up until about 12:30 am, and she also had an appetite

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[lesemma]

Someone may have already said this, and you may already know, but feel her throat and see how swollen her glands are. I think that you want to look for only one side that is more swollen than the other. A Lymph node I believe. Anyway, I know that is a sign of mono.

Having had Mono (walking mono and full mono) twice, I will say that it certainly sounds like that's what she has. It'll knock you OUT, as you know. Good luck!!!!

[annearchy]

Of course since the thought of mono occurred to me yesterday, I've been reading up on it online. The one big symptom she had that I couldn't place was the pain high in her abdomen. I wondered about that. Well, you know, doctors are quite human. When I was 9, I got acute appendicitis. I had every classic symptom (which were pretty awful) but the E.R. docs wouldn't diagnose it until my white blood count was about 30 times normal. So sometimes you have to do a lot of convincing :)

[call_me_ps]

Ughh, poor Maya! I had mono way back when I was first pregnant with Wyn. It was no fun. Luckily mine was mild, I didn't have the spleen pain or any of that. My roommate had in college really, really bad. She was more or less down for the count for over a month, though she still went to class. That was it. Class, homework, sleep. For over a month. :-/

[annearchy]

OMG I don't remember hearing about that, Bethy. What an awful time to have that sort of illness. I had a college roommate who got it, basically from being run down. She was sick for 6 weeks and ended up flying back to Mommy in Chicago because there was no one to tend her every need at school.

[simons_flower]

I had mono at 23. I went from feeling perfectly fine at noon one day to crashed out in bed with a 102° fever at 8 p.m. The whole first week, I vacillated between feeling "normal" but without appetite and exhausted with a 101°-103° fever for the next two weeks

[annearchy]

Thanks, T. I've learned a bit about mono online since yesterday and I know about the blood test. I wish I'd thought of this on Friday, when I took her to her doctor. He said she had "a cold virus that makes your stomach hurt" o_O I did mention that she'd been sleeping a long time each day but he didn't seem too concerned. He did say to bring her back if she wasn't well enough to go back to school Monday. Which, of course, I am now planning to do. Whatever this is, it hit her very quickly. She seemed fine Tuesday a.m. when she went to school, but (we learned later) she complained of feeling ill at school that day, and by the next morning she wasn't able to wake up. Bah.

[annearchy]

Yeah, I'm sorry about it too. Poor kid. I'll have to talk to the doctor's office again tomorrow a.m. My biggest worry is that it could take her until school is supposed to end to get completely better :(

[sweet_lemmon]

I'm so sorry about DD. My mum had mono when she was younger and she said it took 2 months to be good for complete. And now she can't donate blood because of it. Here in Brazil we call mono the *mal do beijo* (something like: 'the kiss disease').

This is something I don't like about doctors: their general inability to admit when they're wrong or just don't know.
So true...:| And male doctors are worse!

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I hope everything will be alright really soon.

*sending good thoughts*

*hugs*

[annearchy]

Ahh yes, I think I heard that about donating blood. They don't want you if you've had a disease like this. Here mono is known as the kissing disease, but IMO it's mostly because it's a disease of adolescents and young adults. But apparently you don't have to kiss anyone to get it.