Emma Operacz was enjoying her summer. She was a semester away from graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in psychology. She had a thriving social life, two jobs that kept her busy, and was the life of every party. Then, in June 2024, Operacz noticed symptoms of what she thought was a urinary tract infection as she attended an old friend's college graduation in Milwaukee. She took an over-the-counter medication and tried to ignore the annoyance in her otherwise stellar weekend.A week later, she was still having symptoms. Prescribed antibiotics didn't help. Operacz began to feel pain in her side and run a fever. She became so fatigued that she couldn't work. For two weeks, she was "pretty much bedridden," she said.A CT scan showed no kidney stones or appendicitis. One night, Operacz "broke down crying" on the phone with her older sister Sara. "I was like, 'I'm not OK. Something's not right,'" Operacz said.Her sister immediately came and picked up Operacz from her sorority house.…