What’s your date of birth? That’s increasingly how the world knows you. Mine is April 7, 1951. Even to get meals in the hospital, I am asked for my DOB. I spent most of last week there for a chronic medical condition you never heard of: Buerger’s Disease. That’s not to be confused with Berger’s Disease, which is a kidney problem. Mine, with the “U,” manifests in blood vessels. I get aneurysms and blood clots — so far, all in my left leg — and I’ve had seven bypasses over the past 35 years all in the same place (so far), inside my left knee.

Vascular surgeons take veins from other places and make them into arteries to get around the clots but I’m running out of suitable veins.

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