MONO!

Well, Shea had his first experience having blood taken from his arm today.  I called the doctor this morning, because it occured to me that Shea has been sick with a fever 3 times in the past 4 weeks.  This is just not normal, and I knew it wasn’t just because he is cutting his eye teeth.  So, the nurse ran his situation by the doctor, and she called us back to say that we needed to take him into the outpatient lab at the hospital to have a blood test done.  Needless to say, we were a little stressed this morning at hearing that.  So, the news of mono is actually a relief at this point.  Now we’ve just got to get him past this with us all sane!  He’s pretty miserable.  It seems that his main symptom is a really sore throat.  He keeps grabbing at it and crying.  We’ll keep you posted!