Just call me Peggy Sue

You know that poem that starts "Dance like no one is watching"? Forget the rest of it, and just do that part, a lot.

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Sleeping Through the Excitement

The last 2 weeks have been nuts. 4 hours of rehearsal a night, class all day, someone subbing for all of my teaching. I pretty much have yet to do homework, and am more than totally lost in at least 2 of my classes already. This is going well. Then to top it all off, I find out I have mono. I had this wierd headache for 2 days that would not get better no matter what I did (medicine made it worse, and sleep didn't do anything). So I went to the health clinic to see if they knew what it was, they ran some tests, and I've got mono. Do you know what they do for mono? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. They tell you to sleep and drink lots of fluids, and take some ibuprofin if you want to. That's it. Oh, and you could have gotten it up to 6 weeks ago and might be contagious for the next 18 months. Wow, what a fun sickness. I haven't had time to sleep yet, with InSync, and no matter how much water I drink or how many pills I take my spleen is still 3 times its normal size. Eating is no fun, because there's just no room in my abdominal cavity for anything else. And everyone keeps treating me like a cripple or an invalid, even though I'm still fully in control of my capabilities. I'm just a little tired and my tummy hurts a little. Stupid, stupid mono.
So that's the fun in my life, hope this update finds you well. If you need me in the next couple of weeks, I'm not sure you'll get me, as I'll probably be asleep.

4 Comments:

  • At 1:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Yeah, mono is horrible. They really should have given you more time out of class. I don't know why I got two and a half weeks off and you only got one.

    There's really no advice I can give you except to sleep and maybe get a second opinion about your spleen to see if you can get another med or something.

    -Kathleen

     
  • At 5:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Oh....mono is no fun at all.

    Good luck with that, I guess.

    And we should hang out sometime...well, when you're not running around doing three million things at once...I kind of feel as though you're busy like that most of the time. :)

    Anyway, hopefully I'll see you sometime soon!!

    love,

    Megan

    p.s. If I had a magic cure for mono, I'd give it to you.

     
  • At 5:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    When I had mono, they put me on steroids and that really helped to bring down the swelling. Maybe the doctors can give you some too. Do you remember that? hahah, I sounded like a chimpmunk and couldn't play my clarinet at all.
    Hope you feel better!
    Danielle

     
  • At 6:18 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Just a warning on the steriods...it can make some people (danielle for example) very irritable. haha but it wasn' that bad. Feel Better!!

    Stephanie

     

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