<p>Anyone else dealing with this. S got real sick right around midterms. He's starting to feel better now but it was scary there for awhile.</p>
<p>DW had to drop out of school for a semester "back in the day." Went into the college clinic with mono, came out with two aspirin. A week later back to clinic with strep, left with two cough drops. A week later hospital, and two weeks after that home.</p>
<p>My daughter had mono at the end of last semester. Spiraled to abscesses in her throat to enlarged spleen to surgery. Four solid months of being unwell from the mono and catching everything that came her way, including pneumonia. She ended up withdrawing from school partly because (largely because) of the illness and enrolling at the local CUNY. In that regard it turned out to be the best thing because she's happier and has realized her path, but she is definitely not the same person. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>S couldn't eat anything solid. He had abscesses/lesions throughout his mouth and throat. He could, however, drink chilled "Boost" (like Ensure) for nutrition which kept him going.</p>
<p>I got mono in high school and my teachers were "kind" enough to award me pity Cs on the stuff I missed. Yay for transferring...</p>
<p>DS thought he had mono first semester freshman year (others in his dorm had it), but didn't. He then actually did have it during finals of second semester. He actually took one exam in the throes of it (and miraculously did well) as he didn't have the confirming mono lab test result and didn't know he could ask for an incomplete. He took incompletes in the remaining two exams and made them up later. We brought him home for the R&R, with no idea of what he/we were in for in terms of severity of his case and time to recovery. Of course, there is nothing like home (and Mom) for TLC, the right nutrition, catering to what he can and wants to eat, etc.</p>
<p>His case actually turned out to be mild and he returned to school early in summer to handle the incompletes and take some summer courses.</p>
<p>Just to let you know that some cases do resolve <em>relatively</em> quickly. Hope your S has one of those. And, I guess, that they can do a lot more than we might think (or want them to) even in the throes of the illness.</p>