No. (Surprise!)

I went to the doctor today. I do not have mono. Or, rather, I did not test positively for mono. That doesn’t completely rule out mono, but it makes it unlikely that I have it.

So what do I have? Well, the doctor isn’t sure. He says I might have a complication of a regular viral infection. If that’s the case, what I had last week (fever, chills, coughing, blah blah) was the result of a viral flu or flu-like infection and I’m just not 100% recovered. (It can take up to 2 weeks to recover from a flu; I’m at about 10 days.) On the other hand, I could have something as bad as lymphoma cancer (he said I do have some of the early warning signs of lymphoma cancer, and if I start sweating at night, I should immediately come back in for a cancer screening.) Most likely, though, it’s some sort of virus that just hasn’t run its course in me yet.

If I don’t get better in 7 days, I need to make a followup appointment and have more blood drawn. So I guess it’s wait-and-see time.