Last month I wasn't feeling well. I was getting these awful headaches constantly, I was extremely tired, and some days I just felt off. My first inclination was depression.....I've never had it, but because I wasn't feeling well I was getting frustrated and started to feel sorry for myself a lot. I kept putting off going to the doctor because I thought it was all in my head and that my mind was making me my body feel icky. I was raised that you shouldn't go to the doctor unless something is broken!
I finally just went to the Madsen clinic by my house. You can usually get an appointment there the day you call, unlike my family practitioner who told me that we couldn't get an appointment for a few months since it didn't sound like an emergency, so we are currently looking for a new doctor. When I talked about my symptoms, I felt dumb the whole time just because I was tired doesn't mean something is wrong? At least that's what I though. I had a bunch of tests done over 2 weeks and they determined that I had a friendly virus called Epstein Barr, also known to many as Mono. It sucks to know there is a virus in you that you can easily pass on to your children, but I also felt a little bit of satisfaction knowing it wasn't all in my head. There was a little concern that maybe I had liver damage. For about a week I was having the same symptoms I have when I'm Pregnant that cause my liver to make my body itch and raise my bilirubin levels, but then it just went away.
But in the process they also determined that I had Hepatitis A at one point in my life. Hmm I wonder where I got that, I'm sure it was from living in a third world country for 16 months. And that I also had CMV virus. What that actually is I don't know, I haven't bothered to research it too much. All I know is that many people have it and do not show symptoms, but that it is bad to have when you are pregnant. So I have to brag that my immune system is pretty amazing. I have had multiple parasites including skin bugs and roundworms, dengue fever, and Hepatitis A that all went untreated. Except for the roundworms, who knows how long they were in my body before the internal medicine expert at the University of Utah I visited 5 months post my mission treated them.
So you can have Mono for like 3 months. But I think I licked it in 1 1/2. I had to stop working out because it was sucking the life out of me for the rest of the day and some evenings I was ready for bed at 6 30. So I started walking instead of running and I had to say goodbye to Jillian Micheals for a few months, I'm sure she would call me a pussy. I was going at a really good pace of losing a 1 lb a week until I got sick, unfortunately I didn't lose any weight since I contracted the virus, so those people who have lost 20 lbs because they had mono and didn't eat anything the whole time because they were too tired to walk to the kitchen I wish to tell you that "you suck". I had to deal with the symptoms and still had to do my normal day to day routine, except for maybe some dinners that I skipped and Jake took over. Did I not say I have the best husband ever? Well I do. When your sick it's nice to have someone to take care of you and change a poopy diaper without making a bid deal out of it.
