Aggressively named? Little girl, you’re trying too hard.

I’ve not done the plasma donation before but it’s also an apherisis procedure. They sort all the plasma out of whole blood then mix the hematocrit with saline and give that back IV. It can be painful and can take a long time. That’s why they pay!

Fun fact: universal blood donors are the inverse when it comes to plasma. For blood the true universal donor is O-. This means no antigens to A and B blood or Rh factor.

So true. “I hope it does comfort you to know that you’re not, you’re not smarter than anyone here” is Special Snowflake Syndrome antidote.

It is not eugenics to protect your children from a devastating disease.

I have a friend with Crohns. She recently got a colostomy so that she could function better. She spends half of her time in the hospital. I’m not sure how that is not a disability.

Hey! You’re right! Maybe if I stop believing I have Crohn’s disease I can stop injecting myself twice a month. Thanks uninformed internet commentator, you’ve saved me from the worst part of my life.

um, Crohn’s is a real autoimmune/inflammatory disease that affects men and women equally. It can totally kill you! It almost killed me when I was 15 and my DOCTOR had the same attitude that you do: that I was some whiny teen girl looking for attention. Then I almost died because, as it turns out, I have one of the…

It is worth remembering that in the last 10 years the drugs we have to treat Crohn’s have improved dramatically and are likely to improve so much more in the next 10 years. By the time your Cousin’s children might get their diagnosis’ they will have so many more options.

Based on your descriptions of your cousin’s Crohn disease and the definition of a disability accepted by the ADA, then yes, it’s a disability.

I’m going to leave alone how comments like this smack of the same well-intentioned blather that might’ve surrounded a paper on eugenics back in the day. As a person with a chronic disease who has had well-intentioned people like you ask “why would you want to have kids?” I can tell you your sentiments are hurtful,…

he decides, irresponsibly, to bring more members into my family who are at high risk of a lifetime of surgery, nearly toxic medications, opportunistic infections from years of immunosuppression, and debilitating symptoms that prevent them from living normal lives, that’s my business.

Hi, white woman in her 20s here. I have Crohn’s Disease. I had to have my entire colon removed because I was having to go to the bathroom to spurt blood out my ass roughly 30 times a day, I had an ostomy bag for 6 months, and even though I had a reconnect surgery I will quite possibly have to have a permanent ostomy…

Here’s the thing (and I posted below about this as well): even the act of this level of judging whether or not someone is fit to be a parent based on their disability status is wrong. It doesn’t matter how disabled, or what you think about their ability to parent, or even what you think about them passing along…

As a disability activist* this kind of thinking is truly troubling and opens up all kinds of people with all kinds of diagnosed to the same sort of judgment. I get that you’re angry, and I don’t think that’s wrong. But telling someone with a disability to not procreate is deeply troubling, and is something that people…

I’m familiar with Crohn’s; my mother’s struggled with it, celiac disease, and superior mesenteric artery syndrome for most of her life. And despite having seen her “on death’s door” four times before I graduated from high school, and numerous times since, I’m still happy she chose to have me, and refuse to view her…

Seriously? Have you ever suffered in silence because you couldn’t afford another ER trip, or dr’s visit because your insides feel like they are being shredded? Gone through countless tests, restricted your diet to five foods (only five) because everything else makes it feel like you have eaten razor blades? No? Then…

Thanks for telling me I’m grotesque.

I presume you think everyone with less-than-perfect genetics should be sterilized, in order to avoid passing them on? I mean, it’s the only way to be sure.

Crohn’s disease is real, buddy. They actually have treatments for it, and it’s recognized, etc.