What's Today Again?

     I still don't know why I'm writing a blog about this.  I know that no one wants to read it, and I know that most likely no one is even reading it.  It's just nice to have a place where I can complain and write down what I'm thinking and feeling because I'm pretty sure that my boyfriend, mom, and sisters and fed up with hearing about it.

     I can't say "Day Two" because I really don't know what day it is since I've gotten sick.  I guess it's technically day three since I got official word that I have mono.  I did a lot of thinking today trying to figure out when I started feeling sick so I can kind of estimate when I will start feeling the least bit better.  

     About two to three weeks ago, I came down with a horrible cold for like five days.  I had horrible congestion, a headache, I was exhausted, and my throat was killing me.  That went away, and I traveled to Vegas with my boyfriend for the first weekend of Spring Break where I became really sick again.  I immediately went home after Vegas (home to my mommy, I mean) and I proceeded to lay in bed until Spring Break was over.  I attempted to go to class, but I could barely sit through one full day of it.  I went back home and started going to the doctor...blah blah blah.  I was exhausted and finally found out it was mono.

    Now, to this morning.  I woke up with the worst pain in my throat I think I have ever experienced.  Imagine strep throat times two.  Or even three.  It's weird because it isn't my throat that hurts the most.  It's like...one of my tonsils is hurting the most and it even tastes weird when I swallow.  I think I cried in bed for 45 minutes before I actually got up and attempted to eat.  I had to basically take shots of chicken noodle soup to fill my stomach enough to take my medicine.  And I discovered...that I can take Tylenol with my other medicines!  MY SAVIOR.  It didn't help as much as I wanted, but it definitely helped a bit.  I'll take it.

     I convinced my mom to take me the ENT doctor because I was really worried about how my tonsils were looking.  Of course they're going to be gross...but they were turning purple.  The strange doctor told me, "Oh that's normal.  I've seen tonsils of every color.  Sometimes they're even bleeding and we just let them heal right up!"  Uh, I'm pretty sure that's not normal.  I told him, "Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that!"  He sprayed some strange numbing spray in my throat that didn't really help, and he sent me on my merry way.  I spent the rest of the day watching TV and playing games on my phone.  That's been passing time.

     I kind of wish I had a coloring book and some crayons.  That would be so fun.  Maybe even my old lady knitting would come in handy right now.  I have a brand new corn bag though!  You know those bags that you stick in the microwave for like three minutes and it's super steamy.  It is made out of a really cute sock monkey fabric which basically just makes my life.  I love sock monkeys.  I'm kind of obsessed actually.  So here I am in bed with a sock monkey bag on my spleen.  Having an enlarged spleen is a very strange feeling.

     I hope that tomorrow my sore throat gets a lot better so I can at least swallow.  I just really want to start feeling better already.  I am in this rut where I feel like I've been sick for so long and it's never going to get better.  Trying to stay positive!  My absolutely wonderful boyfriend is doing a great job of helping me stay positive and listening to me complain.  I love him so much, I don't know what I'd do without him!  It will get better.  It always does.