This is what bugs me - 20 years ago I had mono.

[LynneSin]

I missed about one month of school before I could return.


This was 20 years ago back when the tools to fight mono weren't as sophiscated as they are today.

And yet Sarah Palin's daughter missed how many months?!!

I'm guessing modern medicine hasn't made it up to our 49th state or is there something to question.

[DJ13]

1. Mono in her case meant just one baby

[Zenmaster]

2. You missed a month. You're lucky. I missed a week of school

When I had mono in 1993.

[LynneSin]

5. well it was about 3 weeks - it was at the very end of the school year

And personally I didn't study at all so I was not ready for my final exams. Since it was my junior year we kinda kept the mono story so I could do my finals in late June (that was they they offered for me to come in and take my tests) and I could have a month to study.

Aced all my finals but typing. Didn't ahve a typewriter to practice and got a B+

[RadicalTexan]

3. I had it in 1994, age 14

Was out of school for a solid four weeks.

[JVS]

4. From what I've heard it also generally causes weight loss rather than a swollen belly.

:popcorn:

[LynneSin]

8. That's the truth - I couldn't eat shit while I was sick

my throat was sore and you really did sleep alot.

[RadicalTexan]

11. I ate mac and cheese 24/7 and lost 20 pounds.

I only weighed 120 to begin with, too. No way did I look pregnant! Haha!

[LynneSin]

13. Campbell's tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches

Mom tried to sneak in some chicken noodle soup but I insisted on Tomato

[libnnc]

6. it only floored me for 2 weeks

that was in '84

[HereSince1628]

7. Infectious mono is a virus. Are they regularly using anti-virals against it now?

I thought they were still just treating symptoms.

[LynneSin]

10. I have no idea but I gues whatever it is - you get out of school for several months now

at least with Palin's kid

[Phredicles]

9. Yeah, I teach high school, and kids get mono on occasion: They miss

weeks, not months.

I respect the principle that we shouldn't be nosing around into people's private lives (even if ideologues of Palin's stripe most assuredly do not). But if a person is prepared to lie and stage cover-ups about giving birth, what else will they lie and cover up for?

[LynneSin]

12. If a woman wants to make a choice about what I do with my body....

...then I have the right to know about the choices she made.

Sarah Palin made STUPID choices with the birth of her last child. Let's just assume this was her child - why in gods name would you risk flying TEN HOURS to texas when any reasonable OB doc would tell the most ardent of feminist that flying would put your child's life at risk.

And her job was what - governor of one of the states with the smallest of populations. We small states tend to be protective of our statewide elected officers because in our small states you get to know them. I grocery shop where my lone US Representative lives. It's not uncommon to run into Tom Carper, Joe Biden or Ruth Ann Minner at local events. Palin trying to prove she was a 'feminist' (which is impossible because true feminists would never ever question a woman's right to choose) was stupid by risking her child's life with an unnessary trip. Not one person in Alaska would have questioned what she did just like not one person in Delaware questioned Joe Biden when he opted to take the Senate job but travel by Amtrack each day to return home to his kids.

[BeatleBoot]

14. I read that they are into home schooling

Look, not sticking up for them - screw 'em.

But sometime's a dead Bigfoot is just a rubber costume thrown into a cooler.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/78374748.html


Know what I mean?

[Jazzgirl]

15. I had Mono 37 years ago my first year in college.

I missed one week of school.

[undeterred]

16. I was sick for at least 6 weeks in the summer of 1977

I guess I had to stay off a little longer because I was a nursing assistant and couldn't be around patients. I remember having a fever and no air conditioning, and it was miserable. But its much harder on an adult- if you get it when you're 40 it really takes you down.

[goodgd_yall]

17. Every situation is different---does she have an underlying illness?

My own experience was to take 2 weeks off (I had asthma too), but I should have taken more off because for months I did not have my usual energy---falling asleep at my workplace desk, for instance.

[williesgirl]

18. Same here about 46 years ago & I missed 3 weeks, then back to work. rec'd