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My name is Macy, and I'm a 25-year-old from southern Indiana.

During my senior year of college, I started feeling pretty tired and chilly just a couple of days after I returned to campus after Thanksgiving break.

I had a lot of final projects and studying to do, but I was feeling really exhausted, so I decided

to give myself a break and lie down for a short nap. Not long after that, I realized that I might

be running a fever. I took my temperature to find that it was just over 100 degrees. It was

22, so I took a quick at-home COVID test, but it was negative.

I figured I would keep an eye on it and see how things progressed over the next few days.

But over the next week, my temperature steadily increased to just over 101 degrees.

I wasn't experiencing a runny nose, cough, body aches, or anything else you would expect with a cold.

I had been feeling more tired and had started taking a nap each day after class, but I was still able to

function almost like any other college student. By day 12, my fever was reaching over 103 at times,

and I was much more fatigued and sleeping even more. But now I was starting to notice some

shortness of breath just walking from my apartment door to the elevators in my building. It was also getting a little uncomfortable to breathe deeply. At that point, I decided I should go to the doctor, but with as busy as urgent cares are in a big college town during flu season, I wasn't able to get in anywhere for a few days. I went into my urgent care appointment on day 16 of this fever,

expecting to be tested for a few infections, get an answer, and be sent home with some antibiotics.

Instead, when the nurse practitioner came in to tell me about my results, she said that everything

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