Imagine being ill and not being able to determine what is wrong with you. Yet, every day you are hounded by friends, family coworkers and strangers asking “what’s wrong? What is it?”

Welcome to Jeremy Maclin’s world. The Eagles receiver has battled mononucleosis this spring, losing 15 pounds in the process. He is currently still ill and has undergone a crazy amount of testing to determine what he is battling.

Yet, the media and public expect answers.

Hey, it’s not wrong to be curious and want to know. Maclin wants to know. And, that’s kind of the point here: How can you hound a guy and accuse the Eagles of CIA-level secrecy when the player himself doesn’t have answers. When doctors don’t have answers.

Due to an undetermined illness, this is as close as Jeremy Maclin has gotten to the huddle this spring. Football aside, you have to hope this young man's health returns to normal soon.

Now, everybody and their cousin is — dare we say — bitching about the fact that Tuesday came and went without any word on Maclin’s illness. They say that the public was promised answers.

From Dan Graziano’s Breakfast Links on ESPN.com:

We were promised Jeremy Maclin news Tuesday and didn’t get it. As of this morning, neither Maclin nor the Philadelphia Eagles have issued any kind of statement on the mysterious medical condition that has kept the star wide receiver from practicing in training camp.

Never did Jeremy Maclin’s brother promise a statement. He simply said that the family would find something out and then develop a plan of action to determine what to do and when to comment. That’s it.

In fact, his brother, Andre, said:

“That’s when we find out exactly what’s going on and when (the Maclin camp) will address it and talk.”

Notice he says when they will address it, not that they would address it on Tuesday.

So, be patient and wait your turn. This goes deeper than football, as Graziano also pointed out:

And while his status as a football player obviously isn’t as important as his personal health, we don’t know anything about the latter except that it’s not good enough to allow him to play.

The bottom line is to put yourself in Jeremy’s shoes. If you were ill for months and couldn’t find out the cause, would you be rushing to the podium or issuing a release the second you found out what it was?