Clover Stroud's sister dies quite suddenly despite being ill at the age of 46 and this book is Clover's memoir of the grief and pain she felt during that first year in particular. Vitamin deficiency anemia. Besides iron, the body needs folate and vitamin B-12 to make enough healthy red blood cells. A diet that doesn't have enough of these and other key nutrients can result in the body not making enough red blood cells. She is very good on her rage against platitude-spouting friends and strangers as well as the seemingly incomprehensible people she encounters who have not experienced trauma or loss. Anemias linked to bone marrow disease. Diseases such as leukemia and myelofibrosis can affect how the bone marrow makes blood. The effects of these types of diseases range from mild to life-threatening. What is a subconjunctival hemorrhage? American Academy of Ophthalmology. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-subconjunctival-hemorrhage. Accessed July 28, 2021.

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And, in the depth of her grief, Stroud found a portal to another realm in her phone, where she lost herself messaging strangers for over nine hours a day. The internet is an addiction: while her sister ‘would always be ancient and mystical’, Stroud was ‘becoming dystopian’. To work out your blood group, your red blood cells are mixed with different antibody solutions. If, for example, the solution contains anti-B antibodies and you have B antigens on your cells (you're blood group B), it will clump together.Anemia and pregnancy. Hematology.org. https://www.hematology.org/education/patients/anemia/pregnancy. Accessed March 6, 2023. Age. Middle-aged and older men may be more likely to have hematuria due to an enlarged prostate gland. The risk of some cancers that can cause blood in urine also may rise after the age of 50. Pregnancy. Pregnant people who don't take a multivitamin with folic acid and iron are at an increased risk of anemia. Hematuria in adults. National Kidney Foundation. https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/hematuria-adults. Accessed Nov. 4, 2022.

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If the blood does not react to any of the anti-A or anti-B antibodies, it's blood group O. A series of tests with different types of antibody can be used to identify your blood group.Devastatingly real and sometimes uncomfortable portrayal of the long drawn out ride of grief. Accrue and personal analysis of the feelings and senses that accompanied the writer through her ordinary life dealing with extraordinary pain. It is a book about what life feels like when death interrupts it, and about bearing the unbearable and describing an experience that seems beyond words. Lyrical, hopeful, it is also about the magical way in which death and life exist so vividly beside one another, and the wonder of being human. A bladder or kidney stone. The minerals in urine can form crystals on the walls of the kidneys or bladder. Over time, the crystals can become small, hard stones. A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged forty-six. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. The Red of My Blood charts Clover's fearless passage through the first year after her sister's death. Hematocrit blood test. Testing.com. https://www.testing.com/tests/hematocrit/. Accessed March 3, 2023.