DD has mono

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DD has mono
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Tue, 01-30-2007 - 9:13pm

Poor thing just can't get a break. She finally got cleared to go back to cheering just in time for their last 2 competitions and over the weekend she developed a very low-grade fever. She told me what she was feeling like and I was like "hmmm that sounds like mono." A couple of hours later she told me that one of her friends had mono. DS was diagnosed with strep, pneumonia and an ear infection. Took dd in today and sure enough it's mono - test came back positive immediately.

Now, Dr. wasn't too concerned and didn't give me an amount of time for dd to be out of school. I am going to the school tomorrow to see how this is going to work. Anyone have any suggestions for me? I know when I had mono my senior year, I was out about 6 wks and the school provided me with a home teacher. Dr was just saying maybe a modified schedule??? Have things changed towards mono now lol?




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Tue, 01-30-2007 - 10:04pm
Fortunately, we've never had mono in our family, so I can't give you any advice. A friend's daughter recently had it and I know she went to school for only part of the day during her recovery. Hugs to you and your DD. She HAS been through a lot and I feel for her.

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Wed, 01-31-2007 - 7:55am

DS14 was misdiagnosed in the fall (they said flu); he started feeling bad right before Halloween. They FINALLY did mono testing after the 1st of this year upon my insistence that a cold/flu can't linger that long and he never complained about being that tired before! So they finally did the bloodwork and said it probably was at its worst around Thanksgiving and the 4-5 weeks afterwards (it starts slow in some cases like his) - so THAT's why he was dragging and having such issues during first semester finals before the holidays! Unfortunately I could only tell the teachers after the fact (and it did reflect on grades that last part of the semester). But even when diagnosed they didn't want him to miss school; they said to pop in to the nurse's office and take a nap if need be, but try not to miss as the block schedule is killer to make up. So he never took any time off. It's now 3+ months later and he still has waves of being totally wiped out, but it seems like his liver and spleen are back to normal, yet this Friday he goes for an u/s because he had tenderness near his appendix when they pushed on his organs at his followup appt last Thursday. I wish it'd end...I definitely can commiserate!

Sue

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Wed, 01-31-2007 - 4:07pm

The school is being very accomodating. Basically she is to stay home until she feels up to coming back to school. When she does come back to school - she can go to the nurse at any time to take a nap. They are giving her a temporary 504, which in all honestly I don't exactly know what that means except that she gets as much time as she needs to complete assignments, make up work, tests, quizzes, projects... I'm guessing she should probably drop her spanish I class, which bites, but the semester just started and you really need to be in class to learn the correct pronunciation, etc We have block schedules here, so each day she misses, she is missing tons of work (as she learned last semester between ortho appts, dental appts, pt appts, sports doc appts).

Today she's not running a temperature - but her lymph nodes are huge and she slept from 9 last night to 9 this morning (when bf texted her), went back to sleep from 11 - 2:30, and at 4:30 is going back to sleep again....getting her back to school should be really interesting ;-p




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Wed, 01-31-2007 - 8:14pm

Oh your poor DD - what a tough break!

Glad the school is being accomodating. A "504" is a plan for accomodations for children who have a disability or illness, but don't need a full special education plan. A temporary 504 is a way for the school to put these accomodations in writing, and document what they're doing.

Sue

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Thu, 02-01-2007 - 1:15pm

When oldest DD had mono, our school system had a very strict attendance police - miss 6 days a year and you automatically fail regardless of why or your grades!! Doc would not put DD on homebound (county health dept policy). She got lucky that most of it was during Christmas break and then it snowed alot. she would go to school for a day and then be out two for snow, etc. Her campus was spread out over 30 acres on two sides of a road with a walking bridge over it. She was to change campus 3 times a day and then walk up or down two flights of stairs each time. DH would take his breaks to go get her and drive her from side to side b/c her spleen became enlarged and she was exhausted.

Thankfully, the policy was changed after that year. It's the same but the principal and a committee can grant wavers. Wavers are usually based on the reason and the students past attendance and grades.

Youngest DD felt fine when she had it and only missed a few ballgames and then b/c the doc said so. I hope your DD has this kind of time with it.

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Thu, 02-01-2007 - 1:24pm

Funny you posted this at about the same time I was posting about how things are now! She's up and cleaning and dancing :-/ I've been dealing with the school all morning about how to work all of this - and right now she's dancing????

For the past 5 days, every time she was upright for more than an hour the fever would knock her right down....no fever yet today....

Kim