UND ER STANDING
Complex
PT SD
Trauma
“The” Inhibitor Traumas
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o you remember yours? That first time that it really hit you that your child had a life-threatening inhibitor. Maybe it was when the Doctor or Nurse told you in the HTC clinic that the “normal” treatments to stop the bleeding weren’t working and that it was clear that your child’s body was rejecting the known factor solutions. Or it could have been when you nervously waited in the chaotic
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Emergency Room with dozens of other parents while a Doctor somewhere behind a curtain in another room tried to figure out what to do with your child who couldn’t stop bleeding, swelling and crying. And then there was the time that you with others had to hold down your child, kicking and screaming, to infuse or draw labs. The abject powerlessness of a parent to protect or save their child is painful in itself. You probably recall the de-personalization that you felt when it seemed as though you were outside
