Personal Research

I have been educating myself for a good 1 hour now, searching on “Thalassemia” within wikipedia. It has been a mind-boggling hour, I tell ya.

So why am I researching on these ridiculous gibbrish? Because I just remembered that I have it living inside me!

Thalassemia Minor carriers can suffer from mild to moderate anemia. This means my manic-depression/bipolar disorder around the house and my lack of interest in EVERYTHING from time to time.

Now, check this out.

This means that if my future spouse is also a “carrier” suffering from Thalassemia Minor, our children will have a one in four chance to suffer from Thalassemia Major. This means that the poor boy or girl, according to Wikipedia…

Untreated, this results in death before age twenty: treatment consists of periodic blood transfusion; splenectomy if splenomegaly is present, and treatment of transfusion-caused iron overload. Cure is possible by bone marrow transplantation.

Age of twenty! TWO-ZERO! That’s how old I’m going to be in 2007 man! Poor child of mine…

So tell me, am I screwed up or am I SCREWED UP! Gah… Off to find a cute non-Thalassemia-carrying girl who wouldn’t mind my Manic Depression disorder.