Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
well, just found out today i have mono. there goes my summer. any of you ever have it?
Yes when I was 19.
I almost died;parents were out of town;for 2 weeks,while I was getting sick,
I was too stupid to go to the Doctors.

Parents came home from vacation,and knew right away I was really ill.
Doh.
I had mono this past January. I had to take the semester off from college. I was told by my doctor that i could have died if i didn't go to the ER.
I had this increasing pain on my left side. I couldn't lie on my back, basicallly i could only sit up right. So, i walked my self to the hospital ( At my college, i'm like a 5 min walk to the ER) around midnight. After a CT scan and some blood test it was concluded that I was bleeding internally from a ruptured spleen. I was bleeding into my spleenic sac. At least i think that's how they described it to me. My spleen was really frickin huge, 8-10x its normal size.
Suffice to say, when i went into the ER, i stopped eating food for almost a week and a half prior.
The cute Trauma surgeon told me that I lost 2.5 litres of blood. I looked like sh!t, but the Student Nurses at the hospital were really cute ( i had a 5 day stay). I ended with a 7 or so inch long scar on my chest. The incision was held together by 27 staples.
SO, mono sucks, but it can also kill.