Nick

Nick is a childhood friend of Arizona Robbins who came into the hospital with cancer.

Early Life
As a child, Nick was friends with Timothy and Arizona Robbins. When they were ten, Tim officiated a wedding between Arizona and Nick, in which he promised to stop pulling the streamers off her bike.

Cancer
Nick was diagnosed with cancer in his leg. He tried naturopathy to treat it. Six years after his diagnosis, he came to Seattle because he knew that Arizona had just married an orthopedic surgeon. He had lied and told her that it had only been six months since his diagnosis.

Callie and Bailey took him into surgery. Arizona was observing, but when Callie noticed mets in his vessels, she lied to get Arizona to leave.

A PET scan revealed mets all over Nick's body, including a tumor in his heart. Arizona was informed that there was very little they could do.

When he woke up from surgery, Arizona yelled at him for not coming to her sooner about the cancer because she's a doctor. In her rant, she informed him that he was dying. ("Let the Bad Times Roll")

Familial
Nick has a sister. When Arizona found out about Nick's condition, she asked him if he had called his sister.

Friendships
Nick had been friends with Arizona and Timothy Robbins since they were kids. He and Timothy joined the Army Rangers together and he was with Tim through basic training, right up to the end.

Notes and Trivia

 * He called Arizona by the names of various cities in the state Arizona.