"For more than six months, I was living with a strange kind of persistent, stabbing pain that would return again and again through the course of the day. It didn't seem to matter if I popped a Tums or changed what I ate. It's hard to put food down when it feels like you're being consistently pummeled from the inside. The pain got so bad that I was subsisting on a diet of little more than chocolate milk and mixed fruit from the dining hall."
"After a few visits, doctors discovered I was bleeding internally, and I was sent to the hospital for tests, including a colonoscopy. They couldn't even get the camera through my colon during the exam, because it was completely blocked. Later on, doctors told me my tumors were as big as a pineapple. Five pounds worth, and two of them had broken open and were spreading."
A 19-year-old freshman running back experienced persistent, stabbing abdominal pain for more than six months. Over-the-counter remedies and dietary changes provided no relief, and eating became difficult. He subsisted largely on chocolate milk and mixed fruit and lost thirty pounds in half a year. Medical evaluation revealed internal bleeding and led to a colonoscopy that could not pass because the colon was completely blocked. Doctors found tumors as large as a pineapple, totaling about five pounds, with two ruptured and spreading. The final diagnosis was aggressive stage four cancer that was metastasizing.
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