Virgin egg nog this year, I guess. My doctor never told me anything about that. Is getting hepatitus particularly common?
“Six months and no alcohol” sounds more like hepatitis to me. If there’s one vaccination I do keep up with over here, it’s hepatitis. The very thought of no alcohol for six months is enough to make me shudder. For mono, I’ve only heard of six weeks, but I’m not a doctor.
Well, that’s the doctors orders recieved by my BF, and atleast five other people I know who have had mono, with three different doctors between them, and confirmed by two different nurses. I suppose standard practice varies between Oslo and New York.
The explanation given was that mono can very easily infect the liver, and that even when that doesn’t happen, the liver will be overstrained anyway. Of course, IANAD and all that. Do what your doctor says, and drink as much water and milk as you can (have you tried apple-juice?)
Okay, that makes sense. As I was only 6 when I had mono, there were no such admonishments, and everyone else I’ve known who had it were also children.
This is coming from 20+ years distance, but I actually liked having mono slightly. Yes, I was sick, sick, sick. But I lost 6 pounds, and I had a sort of cocoon experience that I’ve never had again. I lost time (which was scary at the time, but seems cool now).
I got it sharing peanut M & M’s with the guy who sat next to me in AP English. He had just come back to school after recovering. I missed about a week or so of school.
No internet then, so I read (when I could) and watched reruns on TV. But mostly I slept. I could use a mild case of mono now, between work, kids and grad school…