Still not getting the answer I want

My doctor's office is insanely busy. I pulled in yesterday and it looked like a mall parking lot, with cars following people to their cars so they could have their spot. The waiting room is insane, the phones are ringing off the hook and I'm standing there thinking, 'I just want to know I don't have cancer and while we're at it can we get rid of this cough?'

If you want to have a health scare, I'm going to suggest you don't do it in the midst of a flu epidemic.

On Friday I had a skin test for tuberculosis. From what I understood, if I'd been exposed to TB in my life the injection would cause no reaction on my skin. So it didn't react, which I thought meant that I had had TB.

Now when I write that out I realize it makes no sense. Especially since they gave me a note telling (my employer) that my TB test was negative.

Because I am the smartest person in the world, I thought that meant I didn't have a current TB infection but since my body didn't attack the TB I thought that meant my immune system was used to it. After announcing to my family, my husband and a bunch of people on the internet that I did have TB, which could be the reason I have an opaque spot on my lungs.

After all that I realized that when the nurse gives you a note that says, "Negative" it means you don't have TB and you never did. I guess I misunderstood the doctor, she must have meant if I had TB in my lifetime, my body would try to fight it off when it was injected under my skin.

I'm not a fan of waiting but it looks like that's what I'm going to have to do. I kind of wish all this would stop being part of my life because it's unpleasant.

I'm pretty disappointed.