A Touch of Scarlett, our journey with a rare bleeding disorder

Yesterday Northern California was hit with one of the biggest storms we've had in over a decade. While other people were running around gathering flashlights, candles and batteries. . . I was checking Scarlett's emergency bag and going over all the different scenarios that could happen, if I sent my daughter to school, on the brinks of a natural disaster. It didn't take me long to decided that she wouldn't be going to school and I couldn't risk flash floods or down power lines being a reason I couldn't get to her, in case of an emergency. Days like this I'm reminded of Scarlett's bleeding disorder more than usual. My daughter and I have the rare bleeding disorder-Platelet Storage Pool Disorder, which leaves us constantly trying to get out of harms way and questioning the "what if's" all the time. I'm ALWAYS  worried, being a working Mom, that I'm not going to be able to get to Scarlett if she's having a bad bleed. Being a Ca...