Medicine is cool.
Aug. 27th, 2013 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSecond-oldest living Harlequin Ichthyosis sufferer is first to ever give birth.
HI is usually fatal within a week. Living to 21 with it is remarkable, having a child even more so. The labour was scary, the C-section had sudden major complications because many of their tools assume that the patient will have skin, but mother and child are now doing fine.
HI is usually fatal within a week. Living to 21 with it is remarkable, having a child even more so. The labour was scary, the C-section had sudden major complications because many of their tools assume that the patient will have skin, but mother and child are now doing fine.