could happen with a virus, of course. And COVID tests were known to have false negatives. All I could do was wait to feel better.Two weeks went by.
Every day, like clockwork, I spiked a fever at about 5 p.m. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower, but it was always there. A second COVID test was negative.
A chest X-ray was negative. A mono test was negative.Three weeks went by. What did I have? I was referred to an infectious disease doctor, who tested me for malaria, because I had traveled internationally fairly recently, as well as for several tick-borne illnesses, and everything else we could think of.