Mono?

Today is the first day in 14 that I haven’t had a fever. I think we’ve had mono and thankfully I’ve lived to tell about it…..

It all started on the Thursday, June 11th, when Ben was at boy’s camp. It’s pretty much inevitable that something awful happens when Ben is gone. Aye! Well, Jax came in bed with me on that Thursday night and I could tell he had a high fever. We were actually at my parent’s house; It just so happened I had photo shoots all three days that Ben was gone and my mom babysat while I was at them. Well, his fever continued without other symptoms for several days. On Sunday, June 14th, McKay, Sadie, and I all came down with a fever, too. It would come and go but left all of us quite exhausted.

Luckily the kids’ fevers disappeared after about 4 or 5 days. They still seem a little low energy but are back to normal. Thank the stars above! Mono is much less severe in children. Who knew?

Unfortunately, my health has steadily declined over the last two weeks. The first few days it was just complete exhaustion with a fever and stomachache but it keeps morphing…..headache, killer sore throat, sinus infection, double eye infection, and finally it moved into my chest which was when I knew I needed to go to the doctor for an antibiotic. Since I suspected we had mono (there’s a big outbreak in Florida right now) I hadn’t previously gone to the doctor – nothing they can do for it.

Julie and a friend brought over dinners this week which was super helpful! Also, my mom took the kids for an sleepover from Thursday (Ben was gone until late to youth conference) to Friday and with Ben around I’ve just slept all weekend. It’s helped so much and it’s so wonderful to be improving. It’s really made me appreciate my normal good health.

It hasn’t quite been the fun summer I had planned for but hopefully in another week things will be back to normal!

Although, if this is mono it’s very probable that Ben will be coming down with it soon. It has a 4 – 6 week incubation period and we did quite a bit of kissing the day before my first symptoms began. :/ Let’s hope he stays healthy!

A few of the things we’ve been up to at home the last two weeks – indoor ice skating, playing with Jax’s new toys, puzzles, playdough, drawing/art, tv shows, and lots of book reading.