(A case of severe hemophilia, psychological stress on collapse of marriage)
He was diagnosed properly only when he was eleven years old. He had gone for a swim in the river in a southern village and his head struck a boulder. He became giddy and unconscious. At Christian Medical College Hospital, his condition was diagnosed as hemophilia, ‘A’ with severity at less than 1%. He has frequent bleeds in the knee. His right knee is swollen. He suffered a head bleed again while swimming in a pool and had to be in hospital with frequent infusions of clotting factor.
He says that when there is severe pain, he loses control of himself, throwing things about, or bites his hand to vent his feelings of helplessness. Usually he apples ice, takes pain killers to relieve pain.
He got married recently but the wife walked on him the very next day. He says that he can not be blamed because his condition was made known to the bride and her family before marriage. The matter is before court. But the broken marriage has shattered his self-esteem. He goes into frequent bouts of depression.
He is very smart and handles his father’s business very efficiently. But he never went to a school as his parents feared that he might have problems there and with other children because of his health condition.
He has two sisters, married(not tested for carrier), His elder brother died a few years after birth.
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