Anyways, So basically I was just really excited to take him there! I was excited to get a week away from work and just relax. With my boy and my family. But of course when you plan on something so perfect as that. It surely doesn't end up being exactly what you in-vision.
The week before we were supposed to go. I wake up on Monday and I have this horrible sore throat. Well I have definitely had a sore throat. But usually its from my nose being so stuffed up and clogged that I end up sleeping with my mouth open all night. So you wake up in the morning and every time you swallow you are like..this is so lovely. I love noticing when I swallow. Who knew I even swallowed this much. You all know that feeling, But you end up getting up and eating and sometimes that takes care of it. But sometimes it will lag around with you for a couple days. But it's gone in no time. So naturally that is what I was thinking was going on. So I go to work and come home that night and I am hanging out at Daryl's with him and I notice I am just kinda achy but I don't pay too much attention to it. I go home and go to sleep.
Wake up the next morning and my throat isn't just a little sore but it is very painful. Looking back now I really don't think I have had a sore throat for years other then a stupid one that lasts a few days from my nose being all clogged. It is hurting pretty bad and I get out of bed and I am just achy. I am like great. I think I am getting the cold that my roommate Katie had. She had a sore throat and cough for about 3 weeks. I just think well drink some OJ and get lots of sleep and I will be over this in no time.I pop some pain relievers in for the aches and I am good to go.
Go to work and my throat is killing me but I pop in some gum and it takes the pain away a little bit. I get through work and come home. Waiting for Daryl to get to my house from work. So I start doing the dishes and loading up the dishwasher. Daryl walks in and right about the time he walks in. My body instantly starts aching. I look up at the clock and notice it has been exactly 6 hours since I took the pain relievers. It was crazy how as soon as it hit that 6 hour mark the pain was back. It was really bad this time. I felt really shaky. I sat down on the couch with Daryl and we started looking at stuff on the computer together. I get so cold. I put the blanket on but this isn't enough. I have to put on sweats and a sweatshirt. But then again. I am still shivering. I end up going into my room and putting on another pair or sweats underneath the pair I have and a jacket over my sweatshirt. I mean I am freezing. Daryl makes me some soup to eat and I take meds again.
That night. I couldn't sleep whatsoever. My throat was killing me and my body was just pounding with aches. When I woke up for the good the next morning I headed to an urgent care. I know my body well enough to know when this is a stupid cold or something big. And it was getting worse. I go to the doctor he tells me I have a bacterial infection. Gives me some antibiotics tells me I will be feeling a lot better in 24 hours.
I go home and sleep which is hard to do with a sore throat. Btw my throat is only sore on one side at this point. It is the weirdest thing. It is really swollen and filled with puss as the doctor said and I have white sores in the back of my throat. I take the medicine and don't do much that day but sleep and watch tv. Wake up the next morning and I am still very very achy. I get in the shower and I can barely stand up and I am just shaking. I do not feel any better. I actually feel worse. That night I call the urgent care and tell them I am not feeling better but worse. I am achy and have no energy and just hurt everywhere. The lady tells me sometimes it take 48 hours and call her if it hasn't improved. I have my dress fitting and thinking about how there is no way I can stand up for 30 minutes while they alter a dress I call in and cancel and schedule one for the next day.
The next day I wake up and am even worse shape. It's Friday now. I still feel bad for Daryl. I have never been this sick or hurt all over so bad. I will admit I ended up crying a few nights to him. Poor boy. I mean Friday I can't even really pull myself out of bed. There is no way I can go to a dress fitting. I forgot. I started to get some weird sores in my mouth that started making it hard to eat. There were some small white ones on the side of my cheek and one large one on the bottom of my tongue. So when I woke up in the morning I had more sores. I didn't really have an appetite which was a good thing because no matter what I put in my mouth it burned. I was so sick feeling I told Daryl I wanted to go to the doctor again. He ended up coming home from work and taking me to the doctor. What a sweetheart. We go to a different urgent care and I get my blood drawn and he tells me it sounds like mono but we will see when that blood work comes in tomorrow. Tells me my throat looks really bad and those sores look painful in my mouth. But tells us to call him tomorrow to find out about the blood work if they don't call me by one.
Saturday was the day we were leaving for Washington. We decided to just go. Which I was glad because I was excited for my mom to be able to take care of me. ha! We left for Washington about 10:30 and Daryl was driving. I felt pretty weak so Daryl was planning on driving the whole way. Which is 12 hours! He is crazy! About one o clock I call the doctor and ask him about the blood work. They tell me someone will call me at 4. So about 4 someone calls me and basically says they didn't test my blood for mono. I mean really? Sounds like they lost it or something. I was pretty annoyed as was Daryl. I still didn't know what was going on with me. We stopped at McDonalds and I got a yogurt and a smoothie. Everything just burned when touching those sores. It was not fun. I was pretty miserable. We ended up getting to Washington around 11. Daryl was a stud and drove the whole way! I tried to stay awake the whole drive but failed. We got home and went straight to bed.
We ended up going to the doctor first thing in the morning. Did some blood work told me it would be ready in a couple days. And the lovely doctor prescribed me some medicine so I could eat. It was this nasty mouthwash stuff. It literally numbed my whole mouth up. I was to do it before meals and every 4 hours. My mouth was just really hurting. I had no idea what those dumb sores could be. The mouthwash helped but not really to eat. I could still kinda feel things and it stinks to not taste your food when you eat but it was better than nothing.
Washington trip wasn't the best for Daryl. I drove him around Camas. But I slept a lot and was weak still. About Wednesday I started to feel better. My sores were starting to go away I wasn't AS achy. I got a call that day and found out I did indeed have mono and I got some viral infection that made those sores on my mouth. They basically told me that it had been over 72 hours and they couldn't give me anything now for the sores and with mono there is nothing they can really do. But let it run its course.
We ended up staying in Washington longer than expected which I was glad about because about the end of the week I was able to do a few more things. I went to work all this week and have been doing invitations and looking at houses. I am pretty tired still. I get achy here and there but it is getting better. I heard it will be like this for about a month or two. I feel like I am doing pretty well. I haven't done much physical activity but I am definitely more tired than usual.
That was the sickest I have been in a really long time. I am glad that is over. But they said my sores in the mouth would probably end up coming back. Which stinks! Now they are stuck with me forever. Although, it seemed like a bad time to be sick. I had work off all week which was nice so I didn't have to take work off. The trip didn't go according to plan. It was nice to relax but I wish I could have shown Daryl more. But I know that we have other times to do that!
I am glad Daryl was patient with me as well as my family. It was nice to see my parents and Kaden and Sarah when we were in Washington. We will be back there again in a month! For the Wedding! Wahoo! :)
Finally feeling better and excited to roast mellows!!
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