APS

I was once told I had a blood clot from my hip to my heel.  Then, a hematologist said that I had antiphospholipid syndrome, better simply called “APS”, and that I should take blood thinner regularly.  I do and am doing well.

When I was five years old, I discovered my father and me in our family car driving to my aunt’s house.  When we got there, my mother came to the car before I even got out and informed me that my 6 year-old cousin had died.  He went to the hospital to have his tonsils removed and developed a fatal blood clot that went to his brain and killed him.