Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome-Personal Narrative Analysis

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“I am sick of Mrs. Caserta. I can’t miss one day of school without getting major grief from her. I don’t know if she thinks I lay in bed eating bon bons all day or what. Does a doctor's note not explain enough to that woman? I mean I can’t help that I physically can’t see in the morning. It just happens. I’m sorry but I will NOT go to school if my head is ringing. I don’t know what tickles her peach so much when she embarasses me in front of the class. I am sick, not stupid.”
This is a journal entry from the pastel yellow diary I found under my bed about a week ago. It is dated from September ninth, two thousand thirteen. My reaction to reading my angsty entries was initially humiliation because of how awesome I thought I was, then I was laughing
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PCSO causes cysts to develop in a woman's ovaries. The cysts secrete hormones that cause multiple imbalances and can affect metabolic rate, hair growth, fertility and overall health. Symptoms are widespread ranging from weight gain, facial hair or even making a woman infertile. For me, the symptoms weren’t a pair of size twenty pants, or a beard. I had daily migraines that often affected my eyesight leading to blackouts and basically a painful existence.
Due to the symptoms, or should I say my inability to cope with the symptoms, Freshman and Sophomore year were difficult for me. Which unfortunately reflected in my grades. I allowed myself to be the victim of the cards I was dealt in this life instead of making some cool disappearing card trick or something out of them. I felt since I was active in so many things, I was a good person. Little did I realize that it is not the quantity of activities a person participates in, but the quality in which those activities are

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