My collection of esoteric diseases
For a change, I'm not referring to my personal medical history, although I feel like the only person in Western civilization to have as many diagnoses as I do. I'm referring instead to my habit of finding and researching rare disorders and diseases. I have clear memories of doing this as early as 1981, when I first found out about AIDS. Back then, or perhaps a bit after it was first reported in Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report that year, it was called GRID (for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency... Sign in to see full entry.