The secretary at my school emailed me this pic! Ha ha ha I thought it was way cool! Anyway it has been a pretty crazy month of March! here is an email I sent out to some friends about all that went down!
Hi everyone just letting you know what has been going on with me lately. March has been a very crazy month! So I haven’t been feeling well for the past couple months and just figured I would just get over it eventually. Anyways on March 4th I went into urgent care because my throat was getting pretty bad. I waited there for an hour finally got into the doctor he saw me for maybe three minutes and said I just had the flu and maybe strep. He gave me amoxicillin for the infection and sent me on my way.
Well over the next few days I was getting continually worse so I called in sick to work Thursday and Friday but just could not shake it off. Anyway by Saturday I was feeling horrible and on top of it all had a massive sinus infection, so it was really hard to breathe. I called a nurse around 10:00 that night and she told me that I needed to get to the ER ASAP. So I went in and yet again waited for almost 2 hours before they got me in the room and then finally the doctor came in and ran some test. When they came back my liver count something or other was way too high and my white blood count was sky high, (obviously because my body was fighting some sort of infection), and they also said that I had a severe case of mono. So they hooked me up to an IV gave me some steroid shots and let me wait there for another 2 hours. I finally got out of there around 1:30AM still in pain but coming home with some nice pain pills ;)
Anyway so the week following was pretty much the worst week of my life! I don’t think I have ever been that sick in my life! I literally could not get out of bed! At the end of the week on Friday which was my 21st birthday I started to break out into a horrible rash all over my body. Kind of freaked me out so my mom called the pharmacist (not the doctor because well lets just say they caused the rash!) and he said that I needed to stop taking the amoxicillin or the pain medication. So that’s what did, but I was still curious so I googled mono patients and amoxicillin and in BIG HEADLINES it read DO NOT GIVE AMOXICILLIN TO MONO PATIENTS WILL GIVE RASH! So I clicked on the link and read all about how the stuff will give patients a rash they don’t know why but it has something to do with your body fighting off the infection. I had been taking this stuff for over a WEEK! So anyway my 21st birthday day was a rash of a time, I won’t forget it for the rest of my life!
Anyway I am thankful to say that I survived and back to work. I still get tired easily but it’s much better than it was! Through out all of this though it really made me realize how thankful I am for my health and for my wonderful job!
Hope all is well with everyone!
Jennifer
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