Miss Savana has been under the weather for several weeks now...in fact she was feeling puny at Erins the weekend after Thanksgiving. I kept thinking she was just being a whiny teenager, you know how they can be, but finally when she asked me if I could take her to the Dr, I knew she really was feeling bad. Savana hates going to the Dr..... really hates it!
We went to Urgent Care on Monday night and the nurse practitioner immediately said that she felt it was Mono. She also was worried about her pale color and history of kidney and liver problems. So she drew blood ( Savana was real happy about that). Initial labs showed some elevated liver enzymes, which is common in teens with Mono. We are still waiting on the actual mono titer test to come back.
The diagnosis of mono explains so much of the last 3 weeks...and I feel like a heel for ignoring her complaints for so long. But even she says that some days she would feel fine then all of a sudden she felt bad again.
Lesson learned. Whiny kids may really be sick kids.
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