I woke up before my alarm, an increasingly common occurrence, but not for the usual reasons- the birds, the early rising sun of late spring or honking cars- I had a throbbing pain in my right side that was uncomfortable, tender, enough to wake me. Due to a recent diagnosis of a condition that, though manageable and somewhat mild, was alarming and jarring, I had turned almost overnight, from a medically neglectful person to a hyper-vigilant-bordering-paranoid alarmist when it came to my body and its health.