Prompt: Thyroid
Character: Ulrich
Special Details: n/a
Words: 225
A|N: For another drabble game series I found: BY GEORGE IT'S A DRABBLE GAME.
When he first heard the name of his condition, all he could think was this:
If XANA really wanted to get rid of me, why didn't he think of this first?
After all, what was Graves' disease supposed to mean other than naming the place where an afflicted person would eventually end up?
After Ulrich stopped being too overly dramatic to actually listen to the doctor, he found out he just needed to monitor his food intake and weight, and take some pills every day. That didn't seem too awful, right?
Wrong.
He was miserable. After taking the radioactive iodine to kill off the overactive thyroid and starting to take those pills the doctor prescribed, nothing appealed to him anymore, not even the meatballs they served on the rare occasions that the cafeteria workers actually put in effort to make them good, or the ice cream at the shoppe downtown on his not-dates with Yumi. As time went on, however, things got better, and he was able to play soccer again.
So later that year, when Odd couldn't stop eating or sleeping or complaining of pain, and had this nasty-looking lump growing at the base of his neck, Ulrich took him to a nice doctor that would help him.
He couldn't have guessed that Odd's ailment left him with a ten percent chance of survival.