When I was little I always seemed to have problems with my joints, I would be in and out of PT all throughout my high school years. We knew I was hyper mobile because my shoulder would always dislocate. My doctors really didn’t think anything of it, and my life was pretty normal; other than the occasional aches and pains. It wasn’t until I was 17 that I started to develop more troublesome symptoms; fainting, stomach problems, rashes, etc. If you asked me back then what I thought was wrong, I would have told you that I thought I had a bad case of the flu. I went to a family medicine doctor and he did some blood work, from there my diagnoses just snow balled. POTS, Gastroparesis, Lupus, Nutcracker syndrome, etc. I knew growing up that I wanted to go into medicine, I thought maybe nursing. I did my pre requisites for nursing, and of course took the TEAS/CASPER. During one of my summers in nursing I decided to apply for a research internship, I fell in love with the research lab environment. I decided I was going to switch my major to Chemistry, I am now hoping that one day I can help be a stepping stone towards a treatment or even a cure for my illnesses.