With all the Netflix bullshit going on I just want to let everyone know that if there's anything you want to watch just make sure you have antivirus turned on & Google the name of it + fmovies 😌
Hi my name is Kayla and I am still angry that they just brushed over Nate Haywood being hemophiliac and acted like that meant he could do literally nothing because my brother has hemophilia and literally actually pole vaulted for three full years in high school on the varsity track team.
Well hemophilia is worse for some people than others, the fact that he was clocked in the face and knocked over backwards and not rushed to the hospital immediately in the first episode means that it was not as severe for him as it was made out to be once it was brought up as a plot device. Regular factor injections and his risk of being in the field wouldn't have been much more than anyone else's.
Some things to note about hemophilia after checking how people are using it in fanfictions:
Well not as life threatening as it was made out to be for Nate, untreated it still can be. With his parents resources and money he would have likely been diagnosed as an infant when he didn't stop bleeding after his newborn blood panel.
We don't know when he was born, but most people use the actors birthdays with the Arrowverse and Nick Zano was born in 1978, so it is entirely possible that Nate Heywood had been exposed to HIV when he was young due to treatments for his hemophilia and definitely could have faced bullying and ridicule because of that. I'd say since he was probably diagnosed as a baby? Maybe he was when he had to get treatment after that scraped knee at 5 years old.
There were countless leaps in treatment for Hemophilia in the 90's, so Nate would have gained a lot more freedom and had to worry about being careful a lot less around the time he was in late High school/just starting college.
They don't specify if Nate has Hemophilia A or B but based on my points in the original post? We can likely assume that he has Hemophilia A, since his trip to Oliver's office didn't land him in the hospital because of spinal bleeds or leave him with a black and blue face.
In short, Hemophilia is not a death sentence any more even if it is dangerous when untreated. Those who have it can go on to lead normal lives the same as someone with something like diabetes can, given that they treat their condition seriously and take the necessary precautions.
Finding His Way Out of the Time Stream:
< Chapter 9 >
Leonard scowled annoyance and let out a grumble of his own at his sister's pushing for him and Mick to talk, though he'd never admit that sometimes it was exactly what the two of them needed. He figured he might as well get this over with and stepped into the room more so that he was in front of Mick, resisting the urge to grab his arm and check the self-inflicted wound from the last mission. "How's your arm?" He crossed his own over himself as he spoke, partly to show his disapproval at the subject and partly as a way to stop from checking the wound himself.
Mick let out a grunt and turned his chair away so he was facing the partly done writing on his desk, taking a swig of the beer he had in his hand before answering. "Doesn't matter, ain't like new scars gonna do anything." The thing that pissed Leonard off the most about that statement? The fact that he saw it as the undeniable truth, is an unarguable fact of his life. He stepped forward and grabbed Mick's closest wrist in his own hand, resisting with he tried to pull it away despite the fact it could easily get him knocked on his ass.
He pushed the sleeve up with his free hand before speaking, it wasn't the arm that Mick had burned just a few days ago but Leonard's stomach churned at the fact that he could see fresher scars over top of the ones from that job in 2014. He should have realized how odd it was that Mick had been avoiding taking his shirt off around him; even when they'd been intimate since he'd been back. "If it doesn't matter then what the fuck is this? If it didn't matter you'd stop fucking doing it." Mick tried pulling his arm away, but with a grip on it using both hands, he wasn't as easy to shake. "This is going to kill you, Mick. One of these days it's gonna go too far and I'm not going to be there to pull you out."
This time Mick shoved him before attempting to pull his arm away, managing it this time before pulling his sleeve back down with a look on his face that said he could kill. "You say that like you didn't just run that night and stay away for nearly an entire year Snart, and then get yourself blown up in my place. I've always known I was going to die by the fire, I've known that longer than I've known you." He stood up then and Leonard didn't move away when he took a step toward him pointing, finger jabbing him in the chest at his next words. "But you had to go and die in my place anyway."
"Was I supposed to stay and watch you burn?" His eyes narrowed and he smacked away Mick's hand before pushing the other man back himself. "Who do you think called so that someone could get you out? Even trapped between fucking time I was more focused on making sure you didn't spiral this far than getting myself out, making sure that I didn't lose you before you even knew I wasn't dead because you're too goddamn stubborn to call your fucking shrink when you're in your present time." Maybe he was hypocritical in that, at least Mick bothered seeing someone when he felt like it. Outside of being forced to because of his Night Terrors when cause he was locked up? Leonard didn't think it was worth his time, but then again the most his compulsions caused was for him to snag people's wallets and accessories without thinking much about it.
"I thought you were dead for almost 2 fucking years." There was a mix of anger and hurt in the way Mick aimed his word at him. "You don't get to judge me for how I managed to survive that." And he had a bit of a point, Leonard hadn't hurt himself, but he had gotten reckless in the 10 months they were apart after that fire. Once he knew Mick had survived he was a little better, but he had been sure that they were never going to get past that and he still wasn't as careful as he had been for years before that.
"I had already left you behind twice Mick, first in that fire and then in those wood. I was going to die before I did it again, go ahead and be pissed at me for that." He didn't care if he was pissed at him for it, he was alive and that was the whole point of it-and turns out they had both survived it. Leonard didn't wait for Mick to respond, walking around Mick and back out the door, headed down to the cargo bay in order to avoid Lisa being able to find him again and make him come back. for them to yell at each other again. It wasn't going anywhere, Leonard wasn't sorry Mick had thought he had died and that pissed the other off-Mick didn't see how what he was doing to cope was wrong and that pissed him off. "Not in the mood Stein-" He said when he saw the older man come into the room out of the corner of his eye.
Stein didn't say anything for a minute and Leonard almost hoped that he was going to just leave it be and leave, instead though? he walked over and dropped a small drawstring back down by Leonard and spoke. "I found it in your things when Jax and I were packing it all up, Mick didn't want to go anywhere near your things after what happened-I had been trying to track down your sister myself to return it to her since we didn't know about..." He turned and took a few steps away before turning back. "A word of advice, though my marriage might be worlds different from yours Mr. Snart? Talking through an argument is better than angry avoidance. In our line of work you never know when will be your last chance to work things out."
With that he walked away and left Leonard to his own thoughts, it was a couple of minutes before he stopped messing with his Cold Gun and reached over to grab the drawstring bag that had been in his go binder. He opened it and poured the necklace inside that once belonged to his and Lisa's mother out into his hand, holding it up to let the Star of David dangle for a moment before dropping it back into the bag and shoving it into his pocket. He had just assumed that Mick had given the item to Lisa himself when he took the money from his go binder, turns out he had probably thought that he'd either lost it or already given it to her himself. He stood from where he was sitting and headed to get something to eat, hoping to avoid Lisa getting on his ass for at least a few more hours.
no spoilers but No Way Home was absolutely worth the hype. nothing beats that feeling of screaming with a theater full of people who love this shit as much as you do.
A tip I've learned when searching for icons on Tumblr, use /search/(actor name) icons and then switch the search preference to text post and for the most part you'll just get actual role play icons rather than the giant ones in the photo posts.