On: Stories About My Brother

[mikeymz]

>Pulmonary embolisms are rare in young people. In the United States, they are even less common among Asian-Americans than white people.

This is a strange opener given that the embolism was related to the limb lengthening. Not quite a bolt of lightening from the blue

[thom → mikeymz]

It's a narrative device.

[eugeniub → mikeymz]

Yeah, echoing what thom said, the idea is the author found it surprisingly, because of how rare it is. Only later did she discover the cause.