Even as a young child, I always seemed to have some medical issue going on. I remember being in kindergarten and telling the school nurse about how I was unusually susceptible to strep throat.
As I got older, the diagnoses piled on: An autoimmune condition, migraine, an immune deficiency, gastrointestinal (GI) issues… the list seemed to go on forever.
By middle school, it seemed like I lived in hospitals. I was going several states away for doctor appointments regularly, I had infusions once a month, I never went more than a year without getting hospitalized.
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