Nick's Based-On-A-True-Story Trigger 3

You have a chronic intestinal disease. It surfaced when you were so young you can't remember, but all throughout your life, on and off, it's sprung up, bringing symptoms from stomach pain to diarrhea to vomiting to weak joints. There's no cure, and you'll have to live with it forever. You deal with it pretty well, and your grades constantly improve through the years. You even convince yourself that the disease isn't a major part of you, that you're strong enough to fight through the symptoms when they do occur. When the doctor mentions surgery as a longer-term solution, you brush it off. You can do it without such drastic measures. You're proud of yourself, and have confidence in your future. During your senior year of high school, though, the disease surfaces as never before. On Christmas vacation, you're too sick to spend time with your family. You miss every other week of the spring semester, and by the end of the year your grades have plummeted. You start to consider the surgery. You get sympathy from your teachers and counselors, but you can't fix your grades with sympathy. When you spend a month in the hospital for the surgery you finally decided to have during finals, you know your college will reverse its decision, and it's not fair. You tried as hard as you could, and you still failed. The biopsy comes back on the removed section of your intestines, and the doctor says that the surgery failed. A 1/1000 chance. Trigger.