The beginning of my story

It all started on Easter day of last year. (April 2009) I was fine the whole day, but around dinner time, my throat started feeling a little sore and all of a sudden I became very tired. So after dinner I said my goodbyes to my family and decided to take a nap. The next morning I woke up and my throat felt even worse. My mom tells me that my throat looked very swollen and a little "dis-colored." So she made an appointment with my doctor for the next day to see what was wrong.After not running any tests, she told us that I had strep throat. Now I had never had strep throat before in my life, so my mom knew it was something more. The doctor merely said that I should go home and rest, so I did. That night I went to bed and my dad kept coming in to give me some water to keep me hydrated. Well, he came back in around 3 a.m and couldn't wake me up. After a several failed attempts of waking me up, my mother quickly grabbed the phone and called 911. I was rushed to Centra State Hospital in Freehold, NJ, where I was once again miss-diagnosed. The doctors there, again running no tests, diagnosed me with Mono. I was still not responding at this point, and was once again told to just go home and rest. So my father himself wheeled me out and a family friend pointed us in the direction of calling Childrens Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick. It is there that my proper diagnosis and road to recovery began.

My story makes it in The Papers!

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090710/NEWS/907100336/18-year-old-who-goes-home-after-3-months-in-New-Brunswick-hospitals-shows-she%5C-s-a-trouper