Glandular Fever

Good Things About Having Mono:
-good excuse to sleep in all day long
-good excuse to get out of doing things I don't want to ("I can't... I don't have the energy... I have mono...")
-good excuse not to share any of my food
-it's almost like a rite of passage for college girls
-people assume I have a better dating life than I really do
-I can play the sick card for a very long time (one of my sisters had the fatigue from mono for three months, so I have two months to use mono as an excuse for things)
-I got to take steroids and make all the jokes I wanted about it
-I got to eat ice cream as a mainstay of my diet for two weeks, and no one thought a thing of it
-I finally have some good sick stories again (it's been a year and a half since my last real illness, and the stories from that one are embarrassing)
-LOTS of tv and movies
-the delirium that accompanied a week of fevers

The Bad Things About Having Mono:
-being sick isn't actually fun
-running a constant low grade fever, and daily high fevers, for over a week
-super swollen tonsils (and glands)
-not being able to swallow anything (sometimes even ice cream was too difficult)
-not being able to eat solid foods for at least a week
-getting dehydrated on a regular basis, in part because of above complaints
-not being able to move around freely
-not having the mental ability to do much more than watch tv and movies
-no energy
-the mono jokes get old!
-actually being sick for at least a month
-having to take steroids (I am currently unsure whether steroids were developed as medicine or as a torture device)
-not being able to share food
-not understanding what is reality and what is fiction for a rather long period of time
-the constant struggle between fatigue