Word: mono
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several months earlier, Harkavy tested negative for mono at the UHS night clinic, but her symptoms persisted. She had a sore throat with white spots and thought she might have had mono. But when she came back, she was not given the mono blood test again...
...some reason, the people at UHS couldn't put it all together, that I had mono, even though my friends all told me I did," Harkavy says. "The nurse practitioners kept thinking I had strep throat. I told [them] I did not have strep. I had a million strep tests, but [they] didn't give me mono tests...
Harkavy is not the only student who has had problems with mono diagnosis at UHS. A sophomore woman, who asked not to be named, missed 10 days of school last April because of mono...
...given the mono blood test at UHS, she says...
...They told me I didn't have mono, that it was all in my mind, that I was overstressed, that it was just colds going around, that they hadn't heard of anyone having mono," she says. "They just wouldn't believe me. They thought I was crazy...