The Last 3 Years
December 14, 2017. I remember it like it was yesterday. Very cliché to say but it really doesn’t feel that long ago. I was studying for my accounting final in Walsh Hall at BC when one of my roommates walked in. “Hey Woody, the RD wants you to report to health services as soon as possible.” ‘Weird’, I thought, ‘I wonder what this could be.’ I had gone into health services 2 weeks earlier and had been diagnosed with strep throat. I was taking antibiotics for it, but when those ran out, I immediately felt sick again. Once again, I visited health services, and the doctor didn’t know what was going on, so he conducted a blood test and told me he’d get back to me in 2-3 days. Well now it was 2 days later, and I was getting my results. As I walked to health services, I thought to myself ‘I have no idea what this could be, but whatever it is, maybe it could get me out of finals.’ I walked in the building and was immediately placed in a room. Shortly after the doctor came in to speak with