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Kylie Alvarez was tired of being tired.
Although she excelled in school she got a full scholarship to FIU and graduated summa cum laude schoolwork and everything else was exhausting. For years, I always wondered why I was so tired all the time, said Alvarez, a physician assistant student at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM).
Eventually, she went to the doctor. After a series of tests, she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid does not produce enough hormones. She also had a suspicious thyroid nodule. A month before starting PA school at FIU, she had surgery to remove her thyroid. And a biopsy revealed the nodule was malignant.