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Fragile
New Care Instructions for a label I’ve worn for most of my life
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4 min readFeb 6, 2022
It began when I contracted mononucleosis from a water fountain at age six. Instructed by a physician, my mother gave me aspirin. This threw me into convulsions and a coma — they diagnosed me with Reye’s Syndrome and I nearly died. My…