Celebrating her birthday, Brynn Schulte looks like any other 3-year-old — full of energy, playing with her friends and her big brothers. But the Pleasure Ridge girl isn’t like everyone else — she’s one in 5 million.

Schulte is missing Factor XIII in her blood, which helps coagulate it. Her blood disorder is the rarest of them all.

Shortly after she was born, Brynn was unresponsive. She was bleeding internally.

“Brynn was gray,” dad Mike Schulte said. “Basically, not responsive. They raced her over to Children’s in the middle of the night.”

From that moment on, they’ve been on an odyssey. First, they had to find out what was wrong with Schulte.

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