Mononucleosis

Yep, just when I thought we might make it through this "sick"season untouched, bam!, the sick bugs struck our house. Back in February Colby got the flu, and of course when he was getting over it Cameron got it. They both missed a week of school. After being in St. Johns for a week for Grams funeral and totally wearing ourselves out emotionally and physically (the kids played from sun up til way past sun down) we were all sick again when we got home. Colby has it the worst. He was just not looking well to me so I finally took him to the Dr. on Friday and she said it could be one of two things. First was that since we were new to the area that maybe Colby was just picking up every bug we have here and just had one on top of the other, (as she is saying this Colby pipes up and says, "no, I don't pick up all the bugs, just Grasshoppers!") Oh, the funny things kids say! The other thing she thought it might be is Mono, but the only way to know for sure is to get blood drawn and test it. Much to Colby's dismay I opted for the blood test. On our way over to the lab I was trying to explain to Colby what they were going to do and that it would only hurt for a few seconds. He was trying really hard to be brave, but he has no pain tolerance what so ever. After waiting what seemed like hours to him but was really only 15 minutes it was his turn. He sat down in the little chair and asked the guy which finger he was going to poke, despite me best efforts to explain, poor Colby thought they were going to do a diabetes blood test. So the man got his arm ready and told Colby he didn't have to watch if he didn't want to, and stuck the needle in. You would have thought that they were trying to cut his arm off, it was so sad! He was so tense that it took forever to get enough blood out. Finally it was over and we headed to McDonald's because I promised him I would take him, but Colb didn't want to go in because he didn't want people to see him crying! Oh the Drama!!! Later that evening he was still resting his arm! Luckily the next morning he had all but forgotten about the whole thing. Monday morning the Dr. called with the results..........positive for mono. So what do we do now?? Not much you can do to treat mono. We have to let him get as much sleep as possible and don't make him do P.E. or recess. It could take from a few weeks to a few months for him to get over this. AHHHH!!! I really hope that it is just a few weeks. I feel bad for the poor kid, you can tell by looking at his eyes that he does not feel well. When he went to his friends house yesterday he told his friend that all he could do was play Nintendo because he is not supposed to run around, so I guess there are some benefits to having to take it easy!