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It all started like this.

Finally! I finished my last year at Armand-Corbeil High School. Even so, it was 5 beautiful years spent with really extraordinary friends! Unfortunately, it seems that now our paths are separating. I must now choose what I want to do with my life. It's difficult, anyway, to find the perfect career where you see yourself spend your entire life. It's stressful. To find my way, I’ve visited several college web sites and did several open houses. My attention was focused on the program named Orthotics and Prosthetics at Montmorency College. Now, I don’t know if it is better to do the program in 3, 4 or 5 years because it is a very difficult program and I also have to do my basic courses. Choice 1: Go in 3 years Choice 2: Go in 4 years Choice 3: Go in 5 years

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Scene 2.

Well, I chose to do my program in 3 years. Anyway, the sooner I finish my studies, the better it is, even if I have 8 courses per semester. I'll manage to deal with that. I believe. I'm going to my first class entitled Applying the Foundations of the Profession. At the end of the course, the teacher gives us a big task for tomorrow. However, my family is hosting a dinner for my sister's birthday party tonight! I can not really miss it, but I have a big homework for tomorrow… Choice 1: Go to the birthday party Choice 2: Do the homework

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Anyway, this is the first class, so it's not so bad ... My sister is so happy to see me! It's been a long time. We spend a very nice evening with the whole family. I arrive in class the next day, in the same class (we have one theoretical course and the other is a lab) and the teacher tells us that our homework was the "entrance ticket" for the lab course. But I did not do it. He forbids me to go to the lab. Choice 1: I listen to him and I go out of the class Choice 2: When he isn’t looking, I enter in the lab

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Scene 4.

So, this is it. Because of the party, I missed a big 4 hours of class. I'm in trouble. The professor hates me now. Next time, I will organize myself better and do my homework not to miss anymore classes. Start again: GAME OVER.

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Scene 5.

I'm really crazy. I enter illegally in a lab. But I do not have the choice. I don’t want to miss 4 hours of lessons and if the teacher is not able to understand that my sister’s party was more important than this damn homework, too bad! I am hidden in a place where the teacher does not see me. He shows the students how to use a sandblaster and the band saw, the basic tools with which we will work during our three years in the program! Suddenly, I trip on the toolbox of a student, which makes quite a racket in the lab. The teacher sees me. I think I'm going to pay for this… I have a bad feeling about this! Start again: GAME OVER.

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I feel bad to miss my sister’s birthday party. So, it is with a troubled mind that I begin my homework, including all those that my teachers have given me today. It has been 5 weeks since I am in this crazy program. During my class, which talks about lower limb orthoses, I feel faint. I suddenly start hearing voices in my head. I think I should consult a psychologist. Choice 1: Go consult the psychologist Choice 2: Keep going by myself until I die

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Scene 7.

Since my many therapies with the psychologist, I feel alive again. Thanks to these therapies, I successfully completed my studies because I saw the bright side of things. I leave the house peacefully, I go get my coffee before going to work. Life is so beautiful. Start again: END. GO BACK.

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I think I'm followed. I feel a presence behind me. I turn around, I think I see a threatening shadow following me but it disappears immediately. I look around me. People laugh at me. Oh no, that's not how it will be! WHO ARE THEY TO JUDGE ME?!? In an outburst of anger, I grabbed my books of anatomy and biology and I start screaming insults at the people in the street and throwing them my books in the face. I hear a police siren. I have to flee !!! But it's too late. The threatening shadow attacks me! It's over, I'm dying! Start again: GAME OVER.

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Scene 9.

In four years, it's just perfect. I have plenty of time to do everything I want: study, see my friends, enjoy life. I’ve finally graduated from CEGEP. I already have two job offers, it's wonderful! Either in a private laboratory named Médicus or in a hospital. What do I choose? Choice 1: Work for the hospital Choice 2: Work for Medicus

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Scene 10.

Already three weeks that I work in the hospital. I am designing different devices for many patients: plantar ortheses, tibial prostheses, wheelchair fitting, etc. I really like my job. However, a colleague makes me uncomfortable. He doesn’t stop flirting with me. I am no longer able to handle this. Choice 1: Punch him in the face Choice 2: Talk to your boss about it

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Scene 11.

With a prosthetic upper limb, I hit my colleague in the face and he collapses on the ground. He finally got what he deserved! However, I am now unemployed. I might have had to talk to my boss before doing something like that. Now I have to find another job... Start again: GAME OVER.

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Scene 12.

Since I talked about the uneasy situation to my boss, everything is better. I can continue to do my orthoses and prostheses and help my patients with their daily lives without having concerns. I love my job too much! Start again: END. GO BACK.

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Scene 13.

Working for Médicus, it requires a lot of energy. It's a turnkey concept, so I have to sell more than really help patients. Anyway, as long as I'm paid, it's good. I meet a patient who has a foot drop due to a disease called Multiple Sclerosis. So, I have to make him a lower limb orthosis placed in position of dorsal flexion to help him walk. Once the impression is made, I will make this orthosis in the lab. Suddenly, with a rusty rasp, I hurt my finger. It bleeds, but not much. Choice 1: Report to the boss Choice 2: Do nothing, it will heal

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Scene 14.

My boss tells me that this wound is dangerous. I have to go to the hospital immediately because I'm in danger of having the tetanus disease. Fortunately, I’ve warned someone! One, I avoid a lot of trouble and two, it is the CSST that covers the costs until the wound heals. I am off work for a week. It'll give me a little rest and time to review my notes from my biology course on different pathologies. Start again: END. GO BACK.

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I wake up one morning with the arm very numb. I choke a scream as I see that where I cut my skin is turning black and my arm is dark blue. I go immediately to the hospital and it is announced that we will have to amputate my arm. I will have an upper limb prosthesis. Hearing this news, I feel faint and throw up. Start again: GAME OVER.

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Taking the program in 5 years is extremely long. So much that I’ve had the time to go out frequently with five different boyfriends. Pathetic! I'm in my last year now, finally! This is my final school clinic exam. I will have to evaluate a patient in his entirety and make him the best orthosis or prosthesis. I’ve learned in my biology course that the hypothalamus is located in the diencephalon and that it reacts to both the autonomous activity of the viceroys and it’s also dealing with the management of emotions. That's why I'm so stressed and that I want to throw up. Choice 1: It's not worth it, I drop out of school Choice 2: I calm down and attack the exam

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Scene 17.

I am now a beggar. I'm such a coward. I go around the streets, but I collect at least enough money to survive. Suddenly, someone calls me in the street. The girl is named Camille. She is the leader of a theater troop. She wants to give me a chance to get out of the streets and become someone. Choice 1: I accept Choice 2: I refuse

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Scene 18.

This is how I go around the world with this wonderful troop. It changed my life! Camille is now my best friend of all time. She’s so perfect! Finally, maybe it was not so bad as an idea to let go of my Orthotics and Prosthetics program. Start again: END. GO BACK.

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Scene 19.

I should have accepted. I am working in a McDo (at least!) So, I'm slowly starting to get back on my feet. On my way to work this morning, I suddenly slide on a sheet of ice and bang my head firmly on the ground. I believe, according to the little information that I’ve learned from my Orthotics and Prosthetics program, that I have a concussion. I get up suddenly, but I immediately fall again on the ground. I feel that my life is leaving me. I wake up, all sweat and cold. I see with joy that it was just a horrible nightmare. I am an orthesist and my husband is a doctor. I have the perfect life. Start again: END. GO BACK.

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Scene 20.

It was the worst exam of my life. I caught a patient who had a cognitive problem (a lesion in the anterior associative area in his brain), which causes him to have a personality disorder. He tried several times to hit me with my ML rule or my measure tape. At least, the exam is over! Suddenly, I hear a scream in the examination room. I come in and discover that my crazy patient has attacked a student with his walker. Choice 1: I ask him to calm down and apologize Choice 2: I freeze and I do nothing

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Scene 21.

All the teachers congratulate me on my behavior. They put a favorable note on my report card, and I am delighted to become the youngest Orthotics and Prosthetics professor in history five years later. Start again: END. GO BACK.

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Scene 22.

This situation traumatized me to the point of going crazy. I see wherever I go this patient following me and I become paranoid. After several years, my madness has become worse and worse, I’ve finished my days in a psychiatric hospital. The only thing that can calm me, I do not know why, is to have in my possession a plantar orthosis with which I can sleep. Start again: GAME OVER.

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