Mono, The Kissing Disease
Angel has been sick the past few days and it’s been getting worse. She described her symptoms to me and it all sounded like strep throaght or mono except for the fact that she was vomiting. Her throught was swollen so bad that it gave her great pain to swallow liquids. I took her to the hospital early this morning.
Sure enough, she had mono. They gave her some steroids to ease the swelling. They also gave her a prescription of antibiotics. Angel could actually talk and make sense after her throats swelling went down. We went over and picked up some gatoraide and her prescription for antibiotics. She also picked up some soup.
10 years ago, I had mono and it was misdiagnosed as strep throught. I showed up at the emergency room twice. Both times the prescribed antibiotics. The second time I showed up because I couldn’t swallow the pills. So what did they do? They prescribed bigger pills. On top of that, it was $50 for the second set of pills and I was asking everyone for cash to help me pay for it. The next day I called in for the results from the swab that they took to test my throat. They said I had mono and that the antibiotics wouldn’t do me any good anyway. The remedy was to just gargle warm salt water.
I remember that I was only drinking heavy amounts of water at the time before I went to the emergency room. Also, I stayed in my very dark room in the basement of the apartment I was living in. I was pretty sensitive to light. I was weak and didn’t want to move at all. I ended up having to drop out of school for the semester. I had dropped out the previouse semester due to my appartment catching on fire. These combined events ultimately lead me to dropping out of college all together.
Tags: Strep Throat, Mono, The Kissing Disease, Kissing Disease, Swollen, Sick, Staroids, Swelling, Prescription, Antibiotics, Misdiagnosis, Infectious Mononucleosis, Mononucleosis, Saliva, Mucus, Virus, Epstein-Barr Virus, EBV, Cytomegalovirus, CMV, White Patches, Gargle, Saltwater, Throat Culture, Mononucleosis Spot Test
July 24th, 2005 at 2:26 am
yeah but he was to smart for them anyway and has a better job now thenmostcould even dreram of..
BTW Sick SUCKS
July 24th, 2005 at 3:23 am
Huh
July 24th, 2005 at 4:40 am
you are to good for colledge.
July 24th, 2005 at 6:03 am
Not true. I need an edhuvahkashun.
July 24th, 2005 at 5:01 pm
I say he is to good for colledge because he knows more then any proffesor can teach him. and he would have to loose his hands or his mind to loose his job in wich case he would simply be put on disability. which i would be on if it wasn’t for the fact that i was honest with the ass holes. I’d suggest you try to get to know me befor you suggest what i should do….
August 31st, 2006 at 8:16 am
I think that he deserves to go to colledge, because he sounds so smatr, and he probably is
August 31st, 2006 at 8:17 am
I think that he deserves to go to colledge, because he sounds so smart and he probably is