Andi

I’m the type of person who rarely gets sick. In high school I had a near perfect attendance record, and still went to class even if I felt sick. These past few weeks have been quite the opposite. About 2 weeks ago I started to feel exhausted ALL the time, but I thought I was just being a busy-bee. I had band, Greek Week dance practices, 3 very long and important papers to write, lots of artwork to keep up with, and all sorts of other things. But a week later I still felt completely and utterly drained. So, against my will, my friends and parents made me go to Student Health because I’m the type of person who will just wait it out and keep chugging along with my regular activities. But regardless I still traveled over to Westlawn to give Student Health a visit. I described my “symptoms” and figured they would tell me everything was good to go, and boy was I WRONG.

The doctor explained to me that he wanted to run a couple of tests, so first he swabbed the back of my throat, and took some blood. A few minutes later he walks back in, and say “Well you don’t have strep, but you DO have mono.” I was quite surprised. I didn’t know anyone who had mono and I had never had it before, so I asked him how I got it. So in turn he asked me what I’ve been up to lately, I then proceeded to describe all the different activities I’ve been doing. My doctor then came to the conclusion that my body has simply shut down on me because I’ve been over-working myself (also hence the lack of blog posts). There are also no medicines available to treat mono so he basically told me to stay in bed all week, which for a busy-body like me is quite a feat.

So after another week and a half of being miserable and laying in bed day after day, my throat began to hurt, and it was becoming difficult to eat solid foods. So again I ventured back to Student Health, and lone-behold I also have Tonsilitis on top of already having an apparently severe case mono according to my doctor. They prescribed some new medicine, wrote me a medical excuse note to miss classes, and I went on my way. Lucky for me it’s the week right before finals, probably the worst time to miss class. A couple more days go by, and my throat is only becoming worse. One night I even woke up in the middle of the night struggling to breathe, and didn’t really eat that day because it was far too painful.

I then ventured back to Student Health for a third time. A THIRD time! I’m not the kind of person to really go to the doctor at all much less 3 times within a 2 and a half week period! The third time they gave me some different medication and REALLY emphasized on staying in bed, because to be honest I did venture out to class a couple times even though I wasn’t supposed to.

So that leaves me here, sitting alone in my room on a Friday night, too exhausted to even study, much less stay awake. I’m slowly starting to regain energy, although it’s not much. I’m nervous for finals because I’ve missed majority of my classes this week, and I’m just a paranoid person to begin with. Hopefully I can pull through finals, and go home to sleep the summer away until this mono and tonsilitis finally disappears!

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