Seven years ago, I received what I presumed was the worst news of my entire life, I was moving to Wisconsin. Yes, you probably guessed it, I was a melodramatic 11 year old girl and wasn’t exactly what you would call “mature.” I didn’t know what to expect, I knew close to nothing about Wisconsin…..I didn’t even know where Wisconsin was. Within days of moving in, I began to see an unwavering pattern amongst the people that...

A routine physical for soccer. No big deal, I’ve done this numerous times. However, this one turned out differently. This trip turned into a phone call to my parents, a call in which my pediatrician passed along her cell phone number. Not good, who wants their doctor’s personal number? The next day, I walked out of Childrens Hospital, petrified, perturbed and perplexed. The doctors had “checked my numbers” and discovered next to no platelets and a serious depletion...

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