As I don’t have to tell many of you, women with the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome type of albinism have a whole set of issues related to our female health that our male counterparts never have to worry about. You know what I’m talking about – those long cycles that seem like they’re never going to end, or those heavy flow cycles that keep us at home for fear of creating a scene somewhere in public. Or, our stories of childbirth, especially for women who didn’t know they had HPS and weren’t prepared for bleeding complications. And, there are some lucky ones among us that have never had a problem out of the ordinary. Dr. Meredith, the OBGYN at the National Institutes of Health that has taken on the cause of women with HPS, is right now pushing a research proposal through the internal review processes at NIH in hopes of getting the green light to interview women at the upcoming HPS family conference. She’ll tell us more about the details in about a week – but I think the general idea is to pu
Stories from the battle to cure Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome, and other observations about every day life