said in Facebook<\/a> and X posts that she will be less visible in the community for a few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n“I’ve been dealing with a lingering sore throat and intense fatigue,” she said. “I received extensive testing and the only explanation seemed to be exhaustion. My doctor ordered one more test for mono and around 8 p.m. tonight (Thursday) I received lab results confirming a mono diagnosis.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
She has been advised by her doctor to rest to prevent further complications, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I share this because I will be less visible around the community for the next several weeks while I recover and I want to be fully transparent about why,” she said online. “My team will represent me when necessary.”<\/p>\n
She said she will be available and reachable during her recovery, especially in the event of an emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hidalgo expects recovery will take several weeks and she will have limited engagements during that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Most people with mono get better in two to four weeks, but some may feel fatigued for several more weeks,” according to the health agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Symptoms of mononucleosis include extreme fatigue, fever, sore throat, headaches and body aches, swollen lymph nodes in the neck and armpits, a swollen liver or spleen or both, and rash.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo left Commissioners Court early this week because of fatigue that she later discovered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-368431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}