[ SECRET POST #2897 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2897 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. That's true of all the Romanov children, though.

[(Anonymous)]

The youngest, Alexi, had hemophilia... now there's some serious fridge horror for you...

[kallanda_lee]

Horror, yes - as in bloody, but wouldn't that technically mean you'd die more quickly?

[(Anonymous)]

I heard that he took much longer to die. He wasn't the first one they shot, so first he sat on a chair watching everyone else get murdered. And he actually took a (relatively speaking) long time to die, they kept shooting him and stabbing him with bayonets and ended up shooting him in the head. Really fucking sad and terrible to even think about.

[kallanda_lee]

Man, that's unspeakably fucked up. Especially given his age.

[(Anonymous)]

No, this is incorrect. According to the firsthand account from the officer in charge, Alexei was the second to die, right after his father, though he had to be shot two more times in the head. Tatiana, Anastasia, and Maria were the last of the children to die, because they had diamonds and gems sewn into their corsets which offered some protection from the initial bullets.

[izzywhizzy]

God, those poor kids.

[(Anonymous)]

Alexei was also wearing a shirt of precious gems underneath, that's why he took so long to die.

[katherine_b]

The other answer you got was excellent, but just to clarify, haemophiliacs don't bleed in the way you would if you severed an artery. The blood doesn't pour our. Instead it pools under the skin in unspeakably agonising clots and masses. It causes huge masses of bruising and black patches, swellings and areas that the person can't bear to have touched. If they bleed inside the brain, this can kill them fairly quickly, as it does for anyone with a severe brain bleed, but not necessarily otherwise. If you want some horror imagery, google 'haemophilia' and click on images. That will give you some idea of what haemophiliacs go through.

[kallanda_lee]

Well, I learned something new today. In a way, I really wish I hadn't, but it's morbidly fascinating, too.

[(Anonymous)]

And just to make it worse, Alexei's treatment for the disease included aspirin for the pain--which lengthened his suffering, as aspirin is a blood thinner.

[(Anonymous)]

Clots? I thought the whole point was that the blood doesn't clot easily.

But the rest I know is true. My hemophiliac husband is so, so tired of people thinking he can bleed out from a paper cut. It's internal bleeding that's the biggest problem, honestly.

[katherine_b]

Sorry, yes, you're absolutely right and the clot was a mistake on my part. I was trying to think of something like a blood blister only a whole lot worse and for some reason that was the word that came out!

[(Anonymous)]

No worries; Alexei had Hemophilia A if I remember right and my husband has Hemophilia B so I just figured maybe there were slight differences. Plus, I'm squeamish about blood and such, so I could have always missed something and been wrong myself, haha.

I think you're thinking of hematomas, which are basically giant bruises. Not fun. Thank goodness there's medicines and treatments for this stuff nowadays, right?