Only in Taiwan...
...have I met someone with the exact opposite blood disorder from mine: hemophilia.
It's so strange - he's known since he was a child, he never gets headaches (!!! so jealous of that!), he only needs medicine when he has an injury...
I, on the other hand, only found out about mine (antiphospholipid antibody syndrome - APS - or "Hughes Syndrome") when I was 23, I've had chronic migraines since I was a teenager, and I need medicine every day for the rest of my life (to lower the chance of blood clots joining up and wreaking havoc).
I know that both of our blood disorders are not common (hemophilia = about 1 in 10,000; APS = less than 1 in 200,000), so not running into another person with either disorder isn't unusual.
I guess it just struck me as... I don't know, interesting? Slightly morbid? Disturbing? A reminder of just how serious my blood disorder really is?
Yeah. Probably all of those.
...have I met someone with the exact opposite blood disorder from mine: hemophilia.
It's so strange - he's known since he was a child, he never gets headaches (!!! so jealous of that!), he only needs medicine when he has an injury...
I, on the other hand, only found out about mine (antiphospholipid antibody syndrome - APS - or "Hughes Syndrome") when I was 23, I've had chronic migraines since I was a teenager, and I need medicine every day for the rest of my life (to lower the chance of blood clots joining up and wreaking havoc).
I know that both of our blood disorders are not common (hemophilia = about 1 in 10,000; APS = less than 1 in 200,000), so not running into another person with either disorder isn't unusual.
I guess it just struck me as... I don't know, interesting? Slightly morbid? Disturbing? A reminder of just how serious my blood disorder really is?
Yeah. Probably all of those.
jeanbean:
you two are yin and yang 
sevillus:
On the bright side, you're hot.