And at last we have a place for Buffista Island!

I just can't figure out where it would be!

Dude! You were my inspiration behind smuggling matches back from San Francisco! I'm so disappointed.

Believe me, not as disappointed as I am in myself.

Oh man, Kat, that sucks so much, for all of you. I hope things turn out as uncomplicated as possible.

I'm a horrid skipper, so I'm sorry, but I have no idea if this was posted already, but I just got this on e-mail and wanted to share.

That's fantastic, Nilly. The good news is, Buffistas.org is still uncharted territory.

Oh Kat. That sucks.

As if my life weren't complicated enough... K has been diagnosed with eppstein-barr virus that is moving towards full blown mono.

Fuck. I'm not sure what to do. I called the NICU already since she was in yesterday afternoon, but now what? Do I need to get tested? What happens if I am asymptomatic and just test positive for the virus? What do I do with all of the fucking breastmilk I am pumping.

Oh Kat, I'm so sorry. I hope you don't have it. You have a ton of breast milk stored, right? Talk to the NICU doctors. Even if you test negative, they might want you to pump and dump for a while, and give Noah and Grace what's frozen, while they make sure you stay negative.

With Mono, the good news is that it's pretty darn hard to catch. I know people who got it and their partners never did. The bad news is that the incubation period is pretty long. Like a couple of months.

It's probable that I will be positive as according to the CDC " In the United States, as many as 95% of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected."

So, I think it is a matter of symptoms then.

Really, I'd like to put my head down on and just cry. I've already called the NICU once this morning and spoke with both of the nurses who are caring for Noah and Grace respectively.

I'm not angry but I am generally overwhelmed. So in addition to sick children, pumping breastmilk, dealing with insurance/social security/my leave of absence paperwork, going back to work on monday, I now have one more thing to deal with. I kind of just want to sit here and cry. Or go back to sleep.

But you could have been infected in the past right? Just because you have the antibody, does not mean it's active in your system.

{{{Kat}}} I'm so sorry. How frustrating.

From the CDC:

Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a member of the herpesvirus family and one of the most common human viruses. The virus occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as 95% of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected. Infants become susceptible to EBV as soon as maternal antibody protection (present at birth) disappears. Many children become infected with EBV, and these infections usually cause no symptoms or are indistinguishable from the other mild, brief illnesses of childhood. In the United States and in other developed countries, many persons are not infected with EBV in their childhood years. When infection with EBV occurs during adolescence or young adulthood, it causes infectious mononucleosis 35% to 50% of the time.

Seriously. I want someone else to take care of this or to tell me what to do. I can't do one more thing. I just can't.

I'm going back to bed.