Here I was a freshman in high school dealing with all the pressures of a new environment, high achievers classes, and the trying to find the right group of people to hang out with.

The 2nd semester of my freshman year I was diagnosed with Pan Colitis. With this news from my gastroenterologist my whole world changed. First it was the symptoms of constanly going to have a bowel movement, then I started to loose weight and then I began to notice the blood in my poop.