The other night I was looking at hemophilia blogs and came across a picture of a boy that has hemophilia and has inhibitors. Inhibitors are tricky little devils and a word I fear hearing from our doctors. When you have inhibitors your body attacks the factor you administer... making it much trickier to treat bleeds. Well anyways this boy has a lot of bruising... and some of the bruises are not from anything you would expect to cause a bruise... one of his bruises was from the belt on his five point car seat harness. Not from a wreck in it but just from being in it on a normal car ride.
All I could think of when I saw that picture was how fragile our bodies are and how busy our bodies are activating the clotting cascade every day. This is not something I thought about EVER before our little journey into the world where clotting cascades simply aren't able to do what they need to do. Seeing all these bruises on my little boys, especially the bruising they got prior to prophy, just makes me realize just how often that cascade is working. And this is just one tiny part of how our bodies take care of us... don't even get me started on what I learned about our bodies from talking to a mom who has a daughter with cystic fibrosis. I am just amazed and thankful for our bodies and the amazing things they can do...
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Yes it is! And so is modern medicine! Watching kids play makes you wonder how they aren't completely covered in bruises. It's the little things in life to be thankful for.
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