For those of you who do not know what TB stands for, it’s tuberculosis. It’s supposed to be pretty serious. The bump I was talking about yesterday was in fact a positive for the Mantoux skin test. The nurse saw it, and she said she thought it was positive. The doctor saw it, and he poked and pressed and measured the bump and determined it was positive. He called a specialist and talked to him for some time while I sat in this uncomfortable chair in what I think was their lab. He told me I may have gotten a TB injection which I don’t remember, and that’s possibly why it was positive. I think I was pretty close to crying when he said that.

I had to get a chest X-Ray at the hospital which was not at all bad, just weird having to wait in the antiseptic smelling waiting rooms, really weird to wear the hospital gown. I have to go to the health department early Monday morning, I think to inform the state that I have TB and for something else, I don’t know what exactly. After that, I have to go back to my doctor. He said he would tell me what was what then.

I feel numb and strangely calm about everything right now.  I think it will all be alright.