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When Louisa Waycott was 12, her family moved from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Sun Valley, Idaho. It was a huge change for her leaving the populated, vibrant city she grew up in for a ski town where she and her family didn t know anyone I was in a new place, with no friends, Waycott tells Health. A total fish out of water. But that wouldn t be the only change Waycott would face: Just a week after she started at her new school in Sun Valley, she had a medical emergency. While taking a shower, Waycott began feeling lightheaded and fainted, collapsing on her bathroom floor. When she woke up, she struggled to get to her feet and was rushed off to urgent care. She doesn t remember much about that experience. I was in and out, she says. But the one thing I do remember was that they had a really hard time finding a vein [to draw blood]. ....