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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (22191)	3/2/2005 12:31:04 AM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32911

I learned the hard way, THEN anecdotally, that mono is really serious stuff for grownups. And I've reached a stage of it that carries a new kind of "danger". I'm finally having days where I wake up feel 100%. Haven't had those in a couple of months. But if I go though my day throwing anything like 100% of my horsepower at anything, I'm back to 50% in no time at all. The doctor has insisted that I completely ignore work and simply take a sabbatical involving laying around and watching TV and reading for at least a month, even on days that I feel good. Can't do that. Have a couple of businesses to run. People to talk to and piss off. <g> But I know that my insistence on working when I feel able (which is finally nearly every day) definitely has a price. If I followed my doctor's instructions to the letter, I'd probably be 100% over it in a month. Doing it the way I am, I'm sure I'm going to be dealing with it to some degree for at least another couple of months. But I'm at least being careful to notice when I've burned up most of my available fuel and back off before I overdo it in such a way that mono will punish me pretty badly for ignoring it. I really wish I'd been able to go, too. When I'm in Vegas, though, I gamble (almost exclusively card games) around 18 hours a day. I'm like a total addict when in the environment, but don't have a gambling jones when I'm not there. I'm certifiably compulsive about gambling when I'm in Vegas thought totally ambivalent about it when I'm home. We have casinos (riverboats) here and I might go once a year for a few hours and that's it. Well, and a few hours whenever I'm in Omaha. I would've set back my recovery a good month if I'd attended. I'm going to the next one, though. And am sure I'll get there some other time this year. We try to do 2-3 trips per year.