Dream job...

You know you're a strange duck when you decide that your dream job would be to be a microbiological history professor... teaching impressionable young college students about how the plague changed western civilization. How cool would that be?

How Ironic...

In the same family: 

Sam I. Am: has autoimmune disorder causing dangerously low platelet levels (can potentially lead to severe bleeding).

One of Sam I. Am's siblings: hospitalized for pulmonary embolism (although in the end they couldn't find one). Platelets: way above normal. Clotting factors: sky high.

How, how do genetics explain this? (I know, I know...8 years of Microbiology training and all that, I do know the answer, but still...)