Anaemia and dizziness

<p> Living with a rare disease is a little like being an orphan.

Anaemia and dizziness symptoms

But one doctor has helped me find a home.</p>

Some days I wish I had cancer. I’m even tempted to tell casual acquaintances that I have cancer, because when I say "severe aplastic anemia" they look at me blankly, or they reply that their aunt Sheila has anemia or, worse, they say, "Thank God you don’t have cancer." That’s what the hematologist said after reviewing my bone-marrow biopsy:

"The good news is, you don’t have leukemia."

I run my uncle’s internal-medicine practice, so I see cancer patients and survivors all the time.

There isn’t much that shocks or frightens anymore in this exhibitionist age, but there’s one bridge that everyone still trembles before: cancer.

Yet during my first trip to the oncology ward -— oncology because there are no wards for aplastic anemia -- four su