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Lessons on Prophylaxis

My name is Jonathan and I have severe Hemophilia A. I am 31 years old, married to the love of my life, have four kids, and I am a Financial Advisor. I have a real passion for the hemophilia community and am constantly looking for ways to give back. My wife and I started a [...]

Get ready for the next play…..Baseball – A good Life Lesson

Fourteen year old Michael Schnitker is a boy on a mission, a boy with plenty of determination.  He is a boy who loves baseball, and doesn’t let his hemophilia keep him from playing the sport that he loves.   He does remember a time when he really wanted to play football, but soon learned that baseball [...]

Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie and Hemophilia

Below is our first blog post from a mother – we hope you enjoy this entry about Kyle – future second baseman of the Texas Rangers!   Baseball…As American as apple pie, right?  But, until recently, most hemophiliacs were discouraged from playing the sport, told the risk outweighed any possible benefits.  Well, tell that to [...]

Hemophilia Fitness for the Brain!

We have started to talk a lot on sweetaffliction.com about how important it is to incorporate fitness into your daily life when living with hemophilia. Well just as important as it is to keep your body strong as a hemophiliac, it is just as important to keep your mind strong and healthy. Below is an [...]

Andy’s Healthcare Reform Plan

Get Fit America! Kind of sounds like a reality TV show but if you think about it, the actual reality here is this: if everybody in this country would just start getting fit it would actually save our country millions of dollars in health care costs that are currently crippling the healthcare system. It frustrates [...]

Hemophilia Fitness routine

  Fitness for Life That Also Builds Better Veins!  I want to encourage you as an adult or child with hemophilia to get fit.  I have always been passionate about fitness and I guess it goes back to the fact that I could not play sports when I was growing up in the 70’s.  I [...]

Hemophilia Fitness

We will soon be adding a lot of content to our Hemophilia Fitness section. This is an extremely important subject matter for Andy and I as we both try to remain very active moving into our mid forties. We hope to give other hemophiliacs fitness tips and articles that they can draw inspiration from in [...]