Freshman year is already stressful as it is. You are the new kids on the block, you dont know the ins and outs of the high school, and you dont want to make a fool of yourself in front of all these upperclassmen. Not only did I have to overcome that, I got diagnosed with an Atrial Septal Defect, or ASD for short. In other words, I had a hole in my heart between the two chambers of my heart. I was always a smaller kid in middle school. My health overall was not at the average or above average that all my peers were at, the ASD was to blame for that. After going through an extensive heart surgery and many test and procedures to get me back to 110%, I started growing and becoming the kid I was meant to be.
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