I'm going to speak the unspeakable. Can you get yourself tested for Mono? It is possible to have it more than once... I know, I have. And for me, it was just about 20 years between my first bout, and my second. If it is mono, you can't do a thing, except take extra good care of yourself. But, at least you would know.

Thinking many, many healthy and healing vibes your way.

Is it possible to get it twice? I didn't think it was...

You know, I just might get tested. I have to get my new insurance cards recorded at the doctor's office anyway. Of course the treatment for mono is to stay in bed and do nothing, which is basically what I'm doing -- staying on my couch with a laptop and doing mostly nothing.

Thanks for everything, M.

Hmm Bob enters the business and suddenly you are too sick to work...call me suspicious ;-) I hope you feel better soon.....re the post beneath??? what have you been up to?

Yeah. Everyone at Bob's work has been sick, so he decided to bring it home with him and give it to me. :/

The post beneath is an example of people who don't know how to keep a discussion in its place.

And I'm going to delete it.

Ok fair play, I was just about to warm up my anti doodah muscles lol.

Heh. Thanks, White Knight o' mine! But no harm done gere. I don't like when people drag discussions from other LJs over to my LJ, contentious or not. But since she was apologising and not trying to continue the discussion, I only deleted the comment. I didn't ban her.

But I'm sick and therefore have a short fuse, so people should be forewarned. *evil grin*

Right on (as we used to say back in the day) Oh well I'm off to teach some sword fighting, I will look in on you again tomorrow. I hope you get some sleep tonight, take care of yourself Kass. xx

I will also say this -- the actual Mono Test (tm) may be negative but you can still have a mono-like Syndrome. BTDT (and so has my kid). It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, but it produced frog antibodies. They can do a viral titer and find out exactly what it is, but it will cost $$$ and take months.

*hug* I've been running like mad and not commenting everywhere, but you've been in my thoughts. I've been there, and it just sucks bilgewater.

*gentle hugs* Flu is nasty stuff. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Thanks, darling. I'm actually pretty sure it's not mono because I am decidedly improved over last Friday. And everyone I've talked to who had this flu last month said four weeks later they were still feeling run down. An earmark of this strain seems to be it's long-term fatigue.

Damn good thing I can work from my couch, eh? =)

I hope you're feeling better too. Nurse R is Teh Awesome!

Had the follow-up today and Dr S said everything is looking great. No more home care needed, should be completely healed Very Soon. I made sure to tell her how awesome Nurse R was--and to thank R herself when she called this afternoon to see how my follow-up went. :)

Awesomeness! Thanks for the bright spot in my day.

You are most welcome! And it was a pretty bright spot in my day, too. *g*

Sounds like this season's flu to me, too - after the first couple days of feeling lousy, you take to your bed for the rest of two weeks with no energy, cough, no voice. After that you're either somewhat better, or just sick of being in bed and get up, and drag around feeling not-quite-dead-yet for a couple weeks more.

Yeah. To be honest, it's not staying consistently horrible like mono did. When I had mono, I couldn't eat for two weeks because I couldn't swallow anything but hot liquids. This is not nearly that bad. I *am* getting better.

It's just that I usually never get sick, and if I get sick, I only get the sniffles for a day or two. So getting hit with something systemic is just something I'm not used to.

But Bob is on the job and I can work from the couch and it's all okay. I just really hate being useless...

It got my poor Otter Pup, who hadn't been sick for more than 24 hours since he was a toddler (he's 14 now). And on his Christmas break, too.

Pauvre otter pup... That sucks!

It does totally suck - I've had this off and on since freaking JANUARY.

Is it like this? You're either shivering, or taking off sweaters/kicking off blankets. All you can think of is sleeping, and you develop a profound apathy for anything not between you and your bed. Work can be done zombie-like, but you try to get out of it at any opportunity. Not only that, but management doesn't take to having me be out for weeks at a time. Which is, ideally, what I would have done.

Then, one morning, you wake up and feel not quite so bad. This lasts approcximately 24 hours, and it bites you in the ass again.

I finally decided that no, this was not my imagination, nor was I just feeling sorry for myself. Apparently there is something nasty and persistent going around - like flu with fever but very minimal respiratory symptoms. There's not much that can be done for it, apparently, except to put the last log on the fire and lay down to die.

May your affliction have a shorter course.

Pretty close, but I don't have minimal respiratory symptoms. My main symptom right now (and the reason I'm not sleeping too well) is a horrible body-shaking cough. And the swollen, aching sinuses and ears are really getting old.

The fever or chills seems to show up if I push myself and try to act normal. I think the secret is to act like a lump and then I actually feel better.

And baths. Hot baths. Lots of hot baths...

If it's like what I had a few months ago, that's a flu variant. The cough may or may not become a lot of coughing-up of phlegm (mine wasn't that bad, but someone else I know was in bed for weeks with that. I only missed a day or two of work).

Rest. Rest.

Funny, apart from mine being centred further south in the system, I know _just_ how you feel...

Think of the Devil, and then she posts! I was just putting some of your bath salts in the bath I'm drawing for myself. I was thinking up a sweet plug I could do for you: Om Shanti Handicrafts -- the Bath Salts that Kept Kass Alive During the Recent Flu. Om Shanti Handicrafts -- the Bath Salts that Saved Reconstructing History! Something like that... =)

Bob had those kind of symptoms at first. But as you know, I'm "medically controlled" and tend to not have those kinds of issues. Except at Reenactor Fest 2, of course, when I was... well, you know... for 12 hours straight.

*snerks* *laughs* Not sure how Mad Ave would feel about em but hey, I'll take it. :)

Right now I'd take 'medically controlled'. I'd take about anything long as it worked.

On the up side? I've brought in _almost_ enough in the last week to make up for the work I've missed...gross, not net, but still...

Yow.

That's where I started, darling. That's exactly where I started when I went full-time.

Now, I went full-time because I was sick and therefore unemployable for a few months. But by the time I was better, I got a temp job for a couple of months and had to leave it because I was forgetting orders (and I had to go to Australia all of a sudden). Life sucks, eh?

I gotta send you this book I'm reading...

Mercy! I think I;m the only not-sick person I know...Some days I am very glad to be Hermit Woman!
Feel better soon! Rest, drink, soak in the tub, whatever works for you - people really can wait a minute for their patterns, etc.

Virtual hugz

Thanks Nanny. ;)

I am usually Hermit Woman too and therefore never get sick. But on his last day at his old job, My Darling picked up this noxious virus and I have been like this for a week now. Grrrr... BARK!

Luckily I had two full days to train the Husband before I took to my couch, so he's running everything. Bless him. Of course he also gets to wait on me hand and foot, the long-suffering darling. *evil grin*

Heh. I'm kinda in agreement with an above writer, who was suspicious of "bob starts work = Kass gets sick" - are we suuuuuuuuure he's not Making Himself Indispensible? ;-P

Seriously, though, let him stepnfetchit a bit - no sense in putting yourself in the hospital, where you REALLY won't get any rest )or especially a hot bath with yummy bath salts.)

Oh, he may very well be making himself indispensible. But it's not as if I can really fight him. He's a full partner now. *eek*

Don't worry. I'm letting him wait on me hand and foot. I'm like the fourth greyhound -- just laying on the couch all day and needed to be awoken for meals. ;) He actually seems to be enjoying it. And really, I have no choice. I can't stand long enough to fold patterns anyway...

I figure I have a full two weeks until Christina gets here and I have to start working again. I have no deadlines during that time. I can do the email from my laptop and Bob is handling everything else superbly. So I'm going to really baby myself in the hopes that I'll get over it more quickly.

and you don't want to "keep" the virus long enough to pass it on to comp'ny, either...

Ooo, but you could lick the envelopes of Bad Customer People, and maybe give THEM a taste. Germ Warfare.

Yeah. I dont' want Christina to spend her entire time in the States with La Gripe!

So far this month, the Bad Customer People have been toeing the line. Maybe the are afeared... ;)

Heh. Good. They should be.

Beware.. I was hit with influenza in Feb. Mid March i felt like i was getting it again but it went into a plain old cold, then sinus infection. Im still coughing and blowing my nose. The sinus pain ended last week, It's easy for this year's influenza to turn into walking pneumonia. I am planning on seeing a Doc on Monday if I am not better. For now, I have to deal with mom's funeral tomorrow.

Sorry you still have The Plague. Seems like most of my friends list has been hit by it this winter, often to the point of the whole household being down with the Ick. From what I've read, this is a rather nasty strain that takes a while to recover from. So please, dear Kass, take it easy until you feel so much better that you just can't bear to spend another moment sitting on the couch with the pups. Then sit on the couch a couple days more, just to be sure.

Hope you feel better soon!

*virtual hugs* (cause they're germ free!)

Gosh Kass, I'm sorry to hear that your still not feeling well. A good hot Epson Salt bath should give your some relief. The Salt will suck out any impurities out of your body. You'll feel a bit tired afterwards, but in the long run it will do your body good. While in bed, a cool towel on your head and some ice for to chew on will help the fever and soreness in your throat. If I were there I would give you a nice cool (icy cream - like, but not Ben Gay) foot massage to bring down your temps too.
Get well my friend. Hope to see you in a better mood real soon. I just love to hear you rant on.

The Countess