May is always a big month for me. It's not only AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Heritage Month. Surprise! I'm a secret Asian. Not so secret, I let people know they just don't want to believe me until I show them photos of my family. Biracial people exist, silly.
It's also pre-eclampsia and HELLP Syndrome Awareness Month. I don't have cancer, but this is sorta like cancer as I'll have to live with it the rest of my life. I got it during pregnancy. It forced my daughter to be born three months early. She had a couple of months NICU stay, I fought with the trying to stay alive before and after the removed her by emergency cesarean.
Luckily for us, she only needed a blood transfusion, and I got off with liver and thyroid damage. The alternative was death for both of us.
Even though my case is rare, it's nice to have this information out there for women who are interested in having kids. She's my miracle baby and the only one I'll be able to have. Doctors have told me any more is unsafe for me because of the HELLP Syndrome.
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