Terrible Pain Research Paper

In 6th grade I started to get terrible pains in my stomach. I just pushed them off for a while because I did not want to bother my family, but soon it became unbearable. We went to my family doctor and my specialist to see what was wrong. They both agreed to have me tested for a mitochondrial disorder, which I had every symptom of so it seemed like a pretty good possibility. Having to be tested for this just seemed like a normal test for me because I was used to getting my blood drawn every few months, but because my mother is a nurse practitioner she knew otherwise. She knew that if I were to be diagnosed with this disorder I would not have lived to see my eighteenth birthday. I know now that those six months we had to wait to get those results back from New York, was some of the hardest months of her life. Luckily, I was not diagnosed with that terrible disorder. A few months later I went back to the doctor because the pain was getting worse and worse. We decided to test my gallbladder. For a 13-year-old having a bad
gallbladder is rarely heard of, but at this point we were desperate. After I took the two-hour-long gallbladder ejection fraction test, we found that my ejection fraction was at 0%. Having a completely non-working gallbladder is rare for adults, let alone a child. Soon after that I was put into emergency surgery. This surgery is usually an outpatient surgery meaning I would have been able to leave soon after, but since I am so lucky with my health, I had to stay and extra four days due to persistent sickness. After I recovered from this surgery, it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Before I had the surgery, I spent at least one day a week in the Emergency Room for a few months, and missed about 40 days of school in just one year. Then it happened again.
Within the past year or two, I began to get sick again, but this one is still a mystery.
It started with hip pain. I kept waking up in the middle of the night with what would feel like a broken hip. The pain was unbearable. The morning after the pain I would try to get out of bed and just putting the smallest amount of pain on that leg was gruesome. Next came the shoulder pain. I played tennis up until this past year, so we just thought that the pain was coming from wear and tear from playing such a shoulder dependent sport, so we tried physical therapy. Sadly this did not help. With the mixture of shoulder and hip pain it began to be hard to move around. I would continuously miss school because the pain was just too severe. A few months ago we tried an MRI hoping that we would find something, but at the same time being terrified of what we might find. The MRI came back negative. My pain is a mystery, but recently it has not been so
severe.