Monday (Day 1)

The day I found out I had mono I actually felt pretty bad so I stayed home from school. I called into work (Little Learners Day Care) to ask for the day off due to the fact that I didn't go to school and the jerks wouldn't give it to me so I went in anyway. You'd think since I work at a daycare and I was sick, they'd want me to stay home so I don't get the kids sick, but apparently not. I woke up right before I had to go to work because I was really tired so I had been sleeping the day away. I woke up to find my eyes extraordinarily swollen and I had the biggest bags under them I had ever seen. I felt worse than when I had gone back to sleep for my nap. But because They had told me I had to come into work, I did.

The moment I walked into the room I work in, Bridget, a woman I work with, ask me if I was okay. She didn't say hi Katrina or anything. I stepped one foot in and she asked if I was okay because that's how bad I looked. I told her I was fine. She had been gone the day before with pink eye and because of the look of my eyes she asked if I had it as well. I informed her that I just didn't really feel very good. So I suffered through work. It was probably the longest 2 and a half hours of my life. There were screaming kids that I had to chase and yell at and I had a headache.

After work my mom made me go to the doctors office where we waited for and hour. During that hour, my temperature proceeded to rise. I could feel it. My face got extremely hot and apparently flushed. I actually slept in the waiting room.

We finally got in to see the doctor. I explained to her that I had a headache, stomach ache, fatigue, sore throat, back and neck aches, stuffy nose, and when I got in there my temperature had risen to 103.2. I got tested for about every illness known to man. I got an x-ray, my nose swabbed, my throat swabbed, and blood drawn, and my finger pricked. I felt like a science experiment. It wasn't much fun.

They finally came to the consensus that I had mono. They told us it was a virus and the only thing we could do was treat the symptoms with Tylenol for the fever and some cold medicine for the rest. Bummer. This is gonna suck.